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You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.
The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.
Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.
You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.
Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.
If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.
Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both
It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards.
The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.
We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.
It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
Here is an Unity Quote that we have all known since school: United we stand; divided we fall.
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'
Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.
If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.
If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.