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A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. - [Wives] 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 silence and a chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house. - [Women] For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. - [Praise] Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event. - [Success] 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] He is wise that is wise to himself. - [Wisdom] 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] In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends. - [Trouble] 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] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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