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Humility is truth.
Fools are without number.
Eagles don't catch flies.
Fortune favors the audacious.
Of two evils choose the least.
Fortune favours the audacious.
Your library is your paradise.
Prevention is better than cure.
Frugality is a handsome income.
Time takes away the grief of men.
Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Retain the wind by compressing the belly.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
War is delightful for those who don't know it
There is no joy in possession without sharing.
[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.
The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.
No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth
The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.
War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.