"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
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"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."
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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
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"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."
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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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"Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets."
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"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
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"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
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"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
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"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it."
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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
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"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."
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"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
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"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well."
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
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"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."
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"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
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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."
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"Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do."
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"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
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"Evil report carries further than any applause."
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"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."
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"I strive to be brief, and I become obscure."
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"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."
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