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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
We should keep our word even to the undeserving.
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
It is the soul, not the body, that makes an enduring marriage.
Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
It is hard to recover the lost opportunity.
Happy he who died when death was desirable.
To submit to necessity involves no disgrace.
His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
Men will judge your past deeds by your last.
In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Equanimity is calamity's medicine.
A rolling stone can gather no moss.
Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
The madness of love is ever delightful.
The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.
Where there is unity, there is the victory.
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
Never thrust your sickle into another's corn.
To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Friendship ever profits, but love ever injures.
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
Even one hair has a shadow.
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent
The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.
Confidence is the only bond of friendship.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
There is no medicine to cure hatred.
Discord gives a relish for concord.
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Death laughs when old women frolic.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.
Be at war with men's vices, at peace with themselves.
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
The defect which one period of life fastens upon us, another will remove.
Wine has drowned more than the sea.
Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.
He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.
Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.
Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
Bright faculties are a source of wisdom, not length of years.
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
Fortune makes many loans, but gives no presents.
A friendship that can end never really began.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
He who wrongs one threatens many.
Methinks you are unhappy, if you have never been so.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.
How unhappy he who cannot forgive himself!
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.
He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
An end to our getting is the only end to our losses.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
Intemperance is the physician's provider.
When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.
Society in shipwreck is comfort to all.
Prosperity sometimes exhibits a little folly.
Many receive advice, few profit by it.
