“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
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“It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.”
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“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime i...”
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“Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.”
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“Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no on...”
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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.”
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“Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.”
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“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.”
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“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
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“It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.”
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“Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.”
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“Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.”
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“A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”
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“Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.”
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“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
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“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.”
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“To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.”
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“To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.”
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“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.”
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“Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.”
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“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”
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