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Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.
Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.
Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.
There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.
With little loan you get a friend, with big loan an enemy.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.
A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
The friendship that can come to an end, never really began.
A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again.
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.
It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.
To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.
Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.