"Knowledge without wisdom is double folly."
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"Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it."
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"Cultivate those who can teach you."
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"The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are."
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"It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow."
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"He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything."
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"What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right."
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"It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions."
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"Hope is a great falsifier of truth."
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"A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed."
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"What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so."
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"You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows."
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"The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness."
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"If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others."
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"If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would."
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"Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning."
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"Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter."
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"The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it."
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"Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over."
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"It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past."
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