"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled."
"No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow."
"A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts."
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
"The scars of others should teach us caution."
"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."
"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."
"The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end."
"It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance."