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- "A fellow who gets more than he deserves wants more than he gets."
- "A few are unwilling to sin; everybody knows how."
- "A fire can't throw a great light without burning something."
- "A liar better have a good memory."
- "A man needs a good mirror to scrutinize his heart as well as his face."
- "Always depend on people to think the worst."
- "Anger is the one thing made better by delay."
- "Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one."
- "Be careful about starting something you may regret."
- "Better late than never."
- "Don't whistle and drink at the same time."
- "Easy tears show treachery, not grief."
- "Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to."
- "Evil natures never lack teachers."
- "Even those who don't want to kill anybody would like the power to do it."
- "Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant."
- "Fear, not kindness, restrains the wicked."
- "Fortune is glass; just when it gleams brightest it shatters."
- "Glory is the shadow of virtue."
- "God rewards virtue; he shouldn't have to furnish it."
- "Good sense, not age, brings wisdom."
- "He who is everywhere is nowhere."
- "Honesty is praised while it starves."
- "It is best to do favors for people with good memories."
- "It is dangerous to guard something everybody wants."
- "It is very important if a man is wise or only looks it."
- "If fortune wants to do you in, she makes you stupid."
- "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
- "It's too late to ask advice when danger comes."
- "It is stupid to complain about misfortune that is your own fault."
- "It is better to profit by a horrible example than to be one."
- "It is better to trust in courage than luck."
- "Laugh at life; don't cry over it."
- "Life is short, but troubles make it longer."
- "Lust wants whatever it can have."
- "Men easily believe what they want to."
- "Money should be mastered, not served."
- "Nobody underestimates his own troubles."
- "Nothing dries sooner than tears."
- "Nothing moves faster than gossip."
- "Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot caputre it."
- "No man loses honor who had any in the first place."
- "Speech is given to many; intelligence to few."
- "The bigger the undertaking, the trickier it is."
- "The man you want to keep bound to you should be chained by food and drink."
- "The man who inspects the saddle blanket instead of the horse is stupid; most stupid is the man who judges another man by his clothes or his circumstances."
- "There is no point in seeking a remedy for a thunderbolt."
- "The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet."
- "The silence of a stupid man looks like wisdom."
- "The time will come when looking in the mirror grieves you, and that grief will be another cause of wrinkles."
- "Thrift is misery with a good press agent."
- "Whatever you want to teach, be brief."
- "When healthy, we all have wonderful advice for the sick."
- "What you didn't hope for happens more often than what you hoped for."
- "When you have just climbed out of a deep well and are perched on top, you are in the greatest danger of falling in again."
- "What hurt him most was his outrageous opinion of his own worth."
- "We turn virtues upside down and want to soil a clean vessel. If any honest man lives among us, we call him slow and stupid."
- "When a bad man pretends to be good, he's at his worst."
- "You ought to watch whatever you can lose."
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