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He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.
We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.
There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy.
In every enterprise consider where you would come out.
No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.
A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena.
His own character is the arbiter of every ones fortune.
Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.
There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.
Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
The end always passes judgement on what has gone before.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.