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I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.
The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
The road to the inn is much better than the stay.
For hope is always born at the same time as love.
Every one in his own house and God in all of them.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.
Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.
To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea.
Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.
The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.