From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
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The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.
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Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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I bend but do not break.
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No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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We are never content with our lot.
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If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
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All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
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