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The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire. - [Despatch] The swiftness of time is infinite, which is the more evident to those who look back on what has passed. - [Proverbs : Time] The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others. - [Covetousness] The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. - [Wickedness] There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have. - [Economy] To die at the command of another is to die twice. - [Death] To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. - [Proverbs] To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. - [Friends] To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age. - [Proverbs] Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. - [Vice] We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. - [Proverbs] Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken. - [Proverbs] What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not. - [Proverbs] What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered. - [Proverbs] When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.] - [Proverbs] Wine has drowned more than the sea. - [Wine and Spirits] You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend. - [Proverbs] You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable. - [Proverbs] You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. - [Proverbs] You should not live one way in private, another in public. - [Deceit] A cock has great influence on this own dunghill. - Maxims [Control] A disorderly patient makes the physician cruel. [Lat., Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit.] - Maxims [Medicine] A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. - Maxims [Appearance] A friend must not be injured, even in jest. [Lat., Amicum laedere ne joco quidem licet.] - Maxims [Friends] A god could hardly love and be wise. - Maxims [God] Displaying page 5 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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