"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."

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"It is bad advice that cannot be changed."

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"That should be considered long which can be decided but once."

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"The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment."

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"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

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"It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies."

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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

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"Familiarity breeds contempt."

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"An angry father is most cruel toward himself."

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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."

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"To refuse graciously is to confer a favor."

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"When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all."

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"Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back."

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"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

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"It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay."

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"Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly."

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"We die as often as we lose a friend."

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"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

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"If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest."

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"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

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"One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people."

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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."

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"There is no medicine to cure hatred."

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"Take care that no one hates you justly."

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"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more."

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"No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not."

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"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."

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"One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid."

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"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

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"It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man."

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"It is not every question that deserves an answer."

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"A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation."

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"He who spares the bad injures the good."

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"They do injury to the good who spares the bad."

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"It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny."

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"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

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"The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted."

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"Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm."

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"Pain forces even the innocent to lie."

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"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

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