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I teach that all men are mad.
Mistakes are their own instructors
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Get money first; virtue comes after.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
Gold will be slave or master.
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