Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

361. Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to keep them in the right road.

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665)

The Broad Stone of Honour, Godefridus, X

362. The better part of valour is discretion.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Henry IV, Pt I (Falstaff), Act V, Scene IV

363. Plenty, as well as want, can separate friends.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Davideis, Bk III, line 205

364. Hypocrisy the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost, Bk III, line 683

365. I holde a mouses herte nat worth a leek
That hath but oon hole for to sterte to. (Trans. — I hold a mouse's heart not worth a leek
That has but one hole to run to.)

Geoffrey Chaucer (?1343-1400)

Wife of Bath’s Prologue, line 572

366. Who is worse shod than the shoemaker’s wife?

John Heywood (?1497-?1580)

Proverbs, Bk I, Chap. XI