A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
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All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
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An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
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Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
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Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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He who spares the bad injures the good.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
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It is bad advice that cannot be changed.
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It is better to learn late than never.
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
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It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
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It is not every question that deserves an answer.
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
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Practice is the best of all instructors.
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
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Some remedies are worse than the disease.
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Take care that no one hates you justly.
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The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
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The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
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The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
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The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
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The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
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There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
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We die as often as we lose a friend.
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What is left when honor is lost?
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When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
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You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
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