“If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.”
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“If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.”
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“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.”
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“Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.”
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“One who was adored by all in prosperity is abhorred by all in adversity.”
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“He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.”
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“Knowledge without courage is sterile.”
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“Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.”
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“A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied.”
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“Friends are a second existence.”
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“There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.”
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul.”
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“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
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“Surfeits of happiness are fatal.”
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“Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.”
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“The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.”
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“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
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“Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.”
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“Time and I against any two.”
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“Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of Time.”
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“Good things, when short, are twice as good.”
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