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Lack of desire is the greatest riches. - [Wealth] Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. - [Study] Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. - [Proverbs] Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it. - [Proverbs] Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last. - [Time] Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. - [Advice : Counsel] Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. - [Pleasure] Let the weary at length possess quiet rest. - [Rest] Let us digest them; otherwise they enter our memory, but not our minds. - [Books] Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. - [Guilt] Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. - [Behavior : Levity] Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb. - [Proverbs] Light griefs do speak, white sorrow's tongue is bound. - [Sorrow] Light is that grief which counsel can allay. - [Proverbs] Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples. - [Proverbs] Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. - [Suspicion] Men practice war; beasts do not. - [War] Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual. - [Example] Men's language is as their lives. - [Proverbs] Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. - [Resignation] Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. - [Modesty] Money does all things for reward; some are pious and honest so long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party. - [Money] Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. - [Crime] Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. - [Self-control] Nature ever provides for her own exigencies. - [Nature] Displaying page 6 of 22 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
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