What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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