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• To do two things at once is to do neither.
• He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
• Practice is the best of all instructors.
• The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
• The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
• If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
• No one knows what he can do till he tries.
• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
• Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
• Debt is the slavery of the free.
• Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
• Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
• You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
• Beware the fury of a patient man.
• It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
• Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
• A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
• How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
• Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
• Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
• In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
• An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
• Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
• If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
• You should not live one way in private, another in public.
• Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.
• Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
• Never promise more than you can perform.
• Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
• Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
• We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
• To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
• It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
• It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
• Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
• For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss.
• Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
• Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.
• He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
• Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
• A good reputation is more valuable than money.
• A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
• Many receive advice, few profit by it.
• It is not every question that deserves an answer.
• It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
• It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
• It is better to learn late than never.
• It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
• I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
• It is only the ignorant who despise education.
• It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
• Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
• No man is happy who does not think himself so.
• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
• No one should be judge in his own case.
• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
• Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
• Money alone sets all the world in motion.
• Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
• You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
• What is left when honor is lost
• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
• The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
• We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
• The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.
• A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
• There are some remedies worse than the disease.
• While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
• The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
• We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
• As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
• Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
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