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It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
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Money alone sets all the world in motion.
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An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
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He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.
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Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.
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Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.
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We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.
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It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.
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Never promise more than you can perform.
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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A beautiful face is a silent commendation.
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While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
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There are some remedies worse than the disease.
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He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
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His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.
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You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
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Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.
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Practice is the best of all instructors.
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Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind.
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For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
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Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
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Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.
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There is no pain in the wound received in the moment of victory.
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Publilius Syrus was a Latin writer of sententiae. He was a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favour of his master, who freed and educated him.
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