Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Be not so severe as to cause shyness, nor so clement as to encourage boldness.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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Be not in the desire of thine own ease.
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Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.
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Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.
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Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see; For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.
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When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wickedness he begins to slander. The abject envious wretch will slander the virtuous man when absent, but when brought face to face his loquacious tongue becomes dumb.
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The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
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It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
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He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.
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