"He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well."
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"Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration."
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"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."
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"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
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"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."
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"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
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"Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality."
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"Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty."
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"Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value."
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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."
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"Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful."
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"A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied."
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"We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret."
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"The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly."
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"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
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"The wise persono would rather see others needing him than thanking him."
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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
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"They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least."
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"Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts."
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