Sit in your place and none can make you rise.

Sit in your place and none can make you rise.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white
skinned at the blackamoor.

Let him laugh who wins.

Let him laugh who wins.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]

Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

Money wants no followers.

Money wants no followers.

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more

Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.

He who profits by a crime, commits it.

He who profits by a crime, commits it.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.