A Mouse Never Entrusts His Life To

What You Lend Is Lost; When You Ask For It Back, You May Find A Friend Made An Enemy By Your Kindness. If You Begin To Press Him Further, You Have The Choice Of Two Things - Either To Lose Your Loan Or Lose Your Friend.

No Man Has Perpetual Good Fortune. [lat., Nulli Est Homini Perpetuum Bonum.]

Always Bring Money Along With Your Complaints.

Let A Man Who Wants To Find Abundance Of Employment Procure A Woman And A Ship: For No Two Things Do Produce More Trouble If You Begin To Equip Them; Neither Are These Two Things Ever Equipped Enough.

In Everything The Middle Road Is Best.