When the need is highest, God is nighest
Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced
If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two
He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity
He who puts a friend to public shame is as guilty as a murderer
Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great
Judge not thy neighbor until thou art come into his place
Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.
Who is wise? He who can learn from every man
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend
Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations
Who seeks more than he needs hinders himself from enjoying what he has
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
Pride is the mask we make of our faults
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence
Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide
The best way to know a man is to watch him when he is angry
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich
An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death