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Culture makes all men gentle.
Silence is often advantageous.
Whom the gods love dies young.
The good man makes others good.
The man who runs may fight again.
A thing hard to track is Fortune.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Art is man's refuge from adversity.
Conscience is a God to all mortals.
Bad company corrupts good character.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Nothing is more useful than silence.
A man that runs away may fight again.
Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
Why should he who is scared be careful?
No just person ever became quickly rich.
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
Old men are children for the second time.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
The workman still is greater than his work.
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
He who labors diligently need never despair.
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.
Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
The Truth, sometimes not sought for, comes forth to the light.
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.