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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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A good scare is worth more than good advice.
Topic: Advice
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Topic: Beauty
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To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
Topic: Beginnings
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Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
Topic: Character
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Topic: Emotion`
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
Topic: Eyes
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Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Topic: Fortune
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Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
Topic: Genius
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Gold will be slave or master.
Topic: Gold
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Topic: Gossip
Source: None
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Topic: Jealousy
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. -Horace.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Topic: Moderation
Source: None
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Topic: Money
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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Topic: Music
Source: None
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
Topic: Neighbors
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Topic: Poetry
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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Topic: Ridicule
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Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
Topic: Ridicule
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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Topic: Tears
Source: None
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