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It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
That should be considered long which can be decided but once.
When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company.
An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.
Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.
Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.
They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them
I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent.
One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed
Give your friend cause to blush, and you will be likely to lose him.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.