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A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.

Injustice never rules forever.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.


Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Love of bustle is not industry.


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