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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.
The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"
Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.
Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife.
If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.
Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?
If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.
If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light.
The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.
Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends
A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.