"Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable."
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"There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing."
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"When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young."
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"Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else."
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"Fools rush in through the door; for folly is always bold."
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"Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances."
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"Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness."
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"There is no wilderness like a life without friends."
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"The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be."
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"For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done."
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"The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places."
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"Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest."
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"A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence."
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"Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love."
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"Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity."
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"The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]"
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"A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will."
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"It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody."
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"Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one."
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"Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new."
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