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- Ignorance
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
- Patience
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- God
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
- Frustrate
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
- Better
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
- Best
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
- Hero
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
- Brief
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
- Difficult
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
- Evil
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Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
- Beauty
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A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- Lie
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
- Most
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
- Lion
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
- Beautiful Woman
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
- Injustice
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
- He
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
- Lose
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
- Evil
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
- Friendship
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
- Pass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- Must
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
- End
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
- Desire
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When desire dies, fear is born.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
- Applause
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil report carries further than any applause.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know or listen to those who know.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
- Nov 07, 2020
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Friendship
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