"Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness."
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"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one."
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"An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness."
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"When desire dies, fear is born."
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"We live by information, not by sight."
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"Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction."
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"There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled."
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"You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession."
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"A wise prince must never take things easy in times of peace."
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"Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand."
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"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one."
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"Beauty and folly are generally companions."
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"Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes."
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"There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul."
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"Keep to yourself the final touches of your art."
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"There is no desert like being friendless."
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"Knowledge without courage is sterile."
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"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."
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"Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad."
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"Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time."
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