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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
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No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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