Retreating is not running away, though running away is sometimes called retreating.
He who errs, and confesses his sin, is near reformation.
Time and disappointment are two loyal friends.
Cupid, some say, is not entirely blind, but very short-sighted, and, according to good Panza, looks through odd spectacles, which make copper look like gold, a cart like a coach, and a shrimp like a lobster.
Do not suffer yourself to be robbed of your treasure, and you will not have to curse the thief.
The laws, some one has said, are like cobwebs, they catch only the small flies.