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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
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One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
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There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
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