The evil that we know is best.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
You will not be a chip the richer.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Best Oneself Worst
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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I am myself my own commander.
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