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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - [Fame] An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. - [Anger] Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. - [Proverbs] Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. - [Proverbs] Do not expect good from another's death. - [Proverbs] Don't promise twice what you can do at once. - [Proverbs] Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company. - [Good Breeding] He who fears death has already lost the life he covets. - [Death] In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. - [Conversation] In doing nothing men learn to do evil. - [Proverbs] It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears. - when the Romans demanded corn [Hunger] Old age has deformities enough of its own; do not add to it the deformity of vice. - [Age] Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. - [Dreams] Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.] - [Proverbs] Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself. The former frequently tell the truth, but the latter never. - [Enemies] Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it. - [Crime] To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man. - [Fools] Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. - in Plutarch's "Life of Cato" [Wisdom] The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. - attributed to Apothegms (no. 247), by Bacon [Action] Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing. [Lat., Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.] - Epistles (94), as quoted by Seneca [Economy]
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