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| A foolish superstition introduces the influences of the gods even in the smallest matters. | 1 |
| A person under the firm persuasion that he can command resources virtually has them. | 2 |
| Adversity reminds men of religion. | 3 |
| Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown. | 4 |
| As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. | 5 |
| Avarice and luxury, those pests which have ever been the ruin of every great state. | 6 |
| Envy is blind, and has no other quality but that of detracting from virtue. | 7 |
| Envy, like flame, soars upwards. | 8 |
| Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. | 9 |
| Evil is fittest to consort with evil. | 10 |
| Experience is the teacher of fools. | 11 |
| False shame only is harmful. | 12 |
| Great contests generally excite great animosities. | 13 |
| Hasty and adventurous schemes are at first view flattering, in execution difficult and in the issue disastrous. | 14 |
| He whom fortune has never deceived rarely considers the uncertainty of human events. | 15 |
| In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. | 16 |
| In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. | 17 |
| Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time. | 18 |
| Men have less lively perception of good than of evil. | 19 |
| Men’s minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. | 20 |
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| Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. | 21 |
| No wickedness has any ground of reason. | 22 |
| Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. | 23 |
| Prosperity engenders sloth. | 24 |
| Rashness is not always fortunate. | 25 |
| The best known evil is the most tolerable. | 26 |
| The fidelity of barbarians depends on fortune. | 27 |
| The least reliance can be placed even on the most exalted fortune. | 28 |
| The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. | 29 |
| Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. | 30 |
| What is honorable is also safest. | 31 |
| When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden. | 32 |
| Wit is the flower of the imagination. | 33 |
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