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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

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A habit does not a monk make.

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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

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I won‘t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

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Nature abhors a vacuum.

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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Believe me, ‘tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

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No clock is more regular than the belly.

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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he‘ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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Frugality is for the vulgar.

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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?

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I drink no more than a sponge.

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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

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