“Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear!
Oaths are of dreadful Weight—and, if they're false,
Draw down Damnation.”
Sir Thomas Overbury (1724), Act II, scene i.
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“Jupiter laughs at the false oaths of lovers.”
Periuria ridet amantum<br/>Iuppiter.
Periuria ridet amantum
Iuppiter.
Bk. 3, no. 6, line 49.
Misattributed

“Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.”
Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 12, p. 29.

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 165
Corresponding to TS 213, Kapitel 87, 409

“It’s not the journey that weighs you down; it’s the baggage.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics, Page 17-18 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352039835_The_Case_for_Colonialism_A_Response_to_My_Critics The case for colonialism, Gilley, 2017

“She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.”
Persius, Satire v, line 246.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
8 May 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)