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Praise your friends, and let your friends praise you.

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In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

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Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.

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To offer advice to an angry man, is like blowing against a tempest.

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Never offer advice but where there is some probability ef its being followed.

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If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

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Love your fellow creature, though vicious. Hate vice in the friend you love the most.

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The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.

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Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry.

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Value truth, however you come by it. Who would not pick up a jewel that lay on a dunghill?

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He who knows the world will not be too bashful. He who knows himself will not be impudent.

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Insult not another for his want of a talent you possess: He may have others which you want.

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Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.

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Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.

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Do well, but do not boast of it; for that will lessen the commendation you might otherwise have deserved.

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If you give a jest, take one.
Let all your jokes be truly jokes. Jesting sometimes ends in sad earnest.

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Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered it will do harm instead of good.

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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

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What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.

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If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

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If you have a friend that will reprove your faults and foibles, consider you enjoy a blessing which the king upon the throne cannot have.

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There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly.

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I considered, that history is the inexhaustible mine, out of which political knowledge is to be brought up.
Book I : Of Government, briefly

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Be careful of your word, even in keeping the most trifling appointment. But do not blame another for a failure of that kind till you have heard his excuse.

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If you mean to make your side of the argument appear plausible, do not prejudice the people against what you think truth by your passionate manner of defending it.

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