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In every enterprise consider where you would come out. - Maxims [Thought] In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] - Maxims [Contention] It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. - Maxims [Planning] It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. - Maxims [Companionship] It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Maxims [Success] It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies. - Maxims [Enemies] It is better to have a little than nothing. - Maxims [Nothingness] It is better to learn late than never. - Maxims [Learning] It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. - Maxims [Hypocrisy] It is good to see in the misfortunes of others what we should avoid. [Lat., Bonum est fugienda adspicere in alieno malo.] - Maxims [Misfortune] It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.] - Maxims [Kindness] It is more easy to get a favour from fortune than to keep it. - Maxims [Fortune] It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Maxims [Questions] It is only the ignorant who despises education. - Maxims [Education] It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.] - Maxims [Forgetfulness] It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. - Maxims [Forgetfulness] It is vain to look for a defence against lightning. - Maxims [Lightning] It matters not how long you live, but how well. - Maxims [Life] It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are. - Maxims [Reputation] It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. - Maxims [Excellence] Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little. - Maxims [Speech] Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. - Maxims [Learning] Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. - Maxims [Speech] Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. - Maxims [Tools] Man has been lent, not given, to life. - Maxims [Man] Displaying page 8 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11 12
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