Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand
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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.Baltasar Gracian
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Like love, courage is no joking matter. If it yields once, it will have to yield again, and again. The same difficulty will have to be conquered later on, and it would have been better to get it over with.
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