If fortune smiles—who doesn’t? If fortune doesn’t—who does?
Moneyed men are always listened to.
Nature is better than a middling doctor.
Stay at home and reverence your parents; why travel afar to worship the gods?
A bottle-nosed man may be a teetotaller, but no one will think so.
It is easier to catch a tiger than to ask a favour.
With money you can move the gods; without it, you can’t move a man.
Bend your head if the eaves are low.
Oblige, and you will be obliged.