Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Three things too much, and three things too little are pernicious to man to speak much, and know little to spend much, and have little and to presume much, and be worth little.
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.
I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
Faint heart never won fair lady.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
That which costs little is less valued.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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