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Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use;
All things are easy to industry, all things difficult to sloth. He that can have patience can have what he will. Promises may get you friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be A true friend is the best possession. Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not. What you would seem to be, be really. Most people return small favours, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with What one relishes, nourishes. Would you live with ease, do what you ought, not what you please. What is more valuable than gold? Diamonds. Than diamonds? Virtue. Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly. He is a governor that governs his passions, and he a servant that serves them. Virtue may not always make a face handsome, but vice will certainly make it ugly. If you have time, don't wait for time. How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. Tart words make no friends - a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of Clean your finger before you point at my spots. The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends. Kings and bears often worry their keepers. Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. Be always ashamed to catch yourself idle. If you ride a horse, sit close and tight; if you ride a man, sit easy and light. You can bear your own faults, why not a fault in your wife? Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at top.
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