"The bold adventurer succeeds the best."
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"If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow."
"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."
"Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken"
"There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties."
"Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot."
"A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward."
"You will be melancholy, if you are solitary."
"Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul"
"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne."
"Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were."
"He, who is not prepared today, will be less so tomorrow."
"He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well."
"Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion."
"All things change, nothing perishes."
"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."
"Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent."
"Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey."
"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."