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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.

Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

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