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#1. A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

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#2. Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

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#3. The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

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#4. No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

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#5. It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

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#6. They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

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#7. The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

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#8. You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

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#9. The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

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#10. An angry man is, again, angry with himself when he returns to reason.

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#11. Time, not the Will, can put an end to love.

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#12. Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

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#13. Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

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#14. Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.

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#15. Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

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#16. That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

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#17. It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

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#18. Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely

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#19. No good man ever became suddenly rich.

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#20. The power of habit is very strong.

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#21. It is hard to touch what brings pain by mere contact.

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#22. Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

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#23. Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

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#24. Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

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#25. No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

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#26. Always shun whatever may make you angry.

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#27. Never promise more than you can perform.

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#28. Folly is very often wisdom's companion.

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#29. Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.

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#30. A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

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#31. We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

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#32. What valor cannot win, flattery may.

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#33. Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

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#34. Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

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#35. It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.

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#36. There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

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#37. Money should be mastered, not served.

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#38. He who plays the fool at pleasure can be wise if he will.

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#39. The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

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#40. Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

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#41. An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.

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#42. Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

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#43. We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

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#44. There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.

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#45. We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

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#46. The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

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#47. He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

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#48. It matters not how long you live, but how well.

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#49. He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.

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#50. Cruelty isn't softened by tears; it feeds on them.

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#51. Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.

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#52. Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

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#53. He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.

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#54. A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

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#55. You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

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#56. He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

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#57. Man has been lent, not given, to life.

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#58. A great man may commence life in a hovel.

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#59. The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

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#60. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

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#61. He who violates another's honor loses his own.

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#62. Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.

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#63. He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

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#64. It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.

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#65. He who injures one man threatens many.

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#66. The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

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#67. I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent

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#68. When we yield to love, we are aiding to our own haven.

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#69. One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

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#70. A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

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#71. Confidence is the only bond of friendship.

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#72. If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

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#73. He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.

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#74. Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

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#75. When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.

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#76. It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

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#77. Union gives strength to the humble.

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#78. Practice is the best of all instructors.

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#79. It is better to arouse envy than pity.

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#80. When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]

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#81. He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

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#82. To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

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#83. It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

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#84. He gets through too late who goes too fast.

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#85. Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

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#86. It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

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#87. It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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#88. The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

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#89. He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.

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#90. When reason rules, money is a blessing.

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#91. Not every question deserves an answer.

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#92. No one can escape death or love.

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#93. While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.

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#94. Even to be hung one should choose a fine tree.

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#95. He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

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#96. Methinks you are unhappy, if you have never been so.

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#97. The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

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#98. Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

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#99. Nowhere can we die happier than where we have lived happily.

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#100. Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

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