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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
The abundance of books is distraction
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Philosophy is the health of the mind.
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Do what you should, not what you may.
See what daily exercise does for one.
No one can wear a mask for very long.
What once were vices are manners now.
Money has never yet made anyone rich.
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
He who is penitent is almost innocent.
Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
The expression of truth is simplicity.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
Consider an enemy may become a friend.
Whom they have injured they also hate.
No crime has been without a precedent.
To rule yourself is the ultimate power
The most happy ought to wish for death.
Do everything as in the eye of another.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
As long as you live, learn how to live.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
Life without literary studies is death.
Know thyself; this is the great object.
It is opportunity that makes the thief.
This life is only a prelude to eternity.
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Real improvement is of slow growth only.
Every change of place becomes a delight.
He is most powerful who governs himself.
We learn not in the school, but in life.
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
True love hates and will not bear delay.
Virtue is nothing else than right reason
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.