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All is change; all yields its place and goes. - [Change] Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - [Success] Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. - [Caution] Authority is never without hate. - [Authority] Bear calamities with meekness. - [Calamities] Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. - [Chance] Cleverness is not wisdom. - [Cleverness] Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it. - [Cowardice] Delusive hope still points to distant good. - [Hope] Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for. - [Hope] For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. - [Praise] Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care. - [Daughters] His worth shines forth the brightest who in hope always confides; the abject soul despairs. - [Hope] I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. - [Friends] I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief. - [Friends] I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. - [Friends] Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. - [Dishonesty] It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk. - [Drinking] Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. - [Partnerships] Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays. - [Time] Life is a short affair; we should try to make it smooth, and free from strife. - [Life] Life is short, yet sweet. - [Life] Love's all in all to women. - [Love] Man doom'd to care, to pain, disease, and strife, Walks his short journey through the vale of life, Watchful, attends the cradle and the grave, And passing generations longs to save: Last dies himself; yet wherefore should we mourn? For man must to his kindred dust return; Submit to the destroying hand of fate, As ripen'd ears the harvest-sickle wait. - [Man] Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. - [Wives] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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