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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. - Maxims [Commerce] Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] - Maxims [Flattery] Forgive others often, yourself never. [Lat., Ignoscito sepe alter, nunquam tibi.] - Maxims [Forgiveness] Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. - Maxims [Fortune] Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity. - Maxims [Fortune] God looks at pure, not full, hands. [Lat., Puras deus non plenas adspicit manus.] - Maxims [Hand] Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. - Maxims [Health] He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so. - Maxims [Wisdom] He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory. [Lat., Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria.] - Maxims [Conquest] He gets through too late who goes too fast. - Maxims [Haste] He hurts the absent who quarrels with a drunken man. [Lat., Absentem iaedit cum ebrio qui litigat.] - Maxims [Drinking] He hurts the good who spares the bad. [Lat., Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.] - Maxims [Law] He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe. [Lat., Caret periculo qui etiam tutus cavet.] - Maxims [Danger] He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. - Maxims [Wisdom] He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. - Maxims [Speech] He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill. - Maxims [Sleep] He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus is qui judicum fugit.] - Maxims [Guilt] He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage. - Maxims [Abundance] He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion. - Maxims [Evil] He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another. [Lat., Invitat culpam qui delictum praeterit.] - Maxims [Faults] How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business! - Maxims [Business] I have often regretted having spoken, never having kept silent. [Lat., Saepius locutum, nunquam me tacuisse poenitet.] - Maxims, also attributed to Xenocrates [Silence : Speech] If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.] - Maxims [Kindness] If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own. [Lat., Amici vitium ni feras, facis tuum.] - Maxims [Crime] If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. [Lat., Si vis ad summum progredi ab infimo ordire.] - Maxims [Ambition] Displaying page 7 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12
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