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Success tempts many to their ruin.
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
A learned man has always riches in himself.
Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him.
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
