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The world wants to be deceived.
One good turn deserves another.
He has gone over to the majority.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
The mind longs for what it has missed.
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
What power has law where only money rules?
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.