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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
That comes too late that comes for the asking.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
What you think is the summit is only a step up
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
There is no power greater than true affection.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
The part of life which we really live is short.
He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
There exists no more difficult art than living.
Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.