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Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
The faulty stands on his guard.
The faulty stands on his guard.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on
fire.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on
fire.
