The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.
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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.Baltasar Gracian
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
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