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Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. [Lat., Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum.] - Maxims [Faults : Friends] We are interested in others when they are interested in us. - Maxims [Interest] We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. - Maxims [Necessity] We may with advantage forget what we know. - Maxims [Forgetfulness] We should provide in peace what we need in war. - Maxims [Peace : War] What is left when honour is lost? - Maxims [Honor] Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. - Maxims [Loss] When fortune favors a man too much, she makes him a fool. [Lat., Fortuna nimium quem favet, stultum facit.] - Maxims [Fortune] When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. - Maxims [Flattery] When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company. - Maxims [Fortune] When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all. - Maxims [Difference] While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. - Maxims [Opportunity] Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad. - Maxims [Fortune] You are in a pitiable condition when you have to conceal what you wish to tell. [Lat., Miserum est tacere cogi, quod cupias loqui.] - Maxims [Secrecy] You must make a lover angry if you wish him to love. [Lat., Cogas amantem irasci, amare si velis.] - Maxims [Love] You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims [Directness] You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. - Maxims [Opportunity] You will conquer more surely by prudence than by passion. [Lat., Consilio melius vinces quam iracundia.] - Maxims [Prudence] It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. - Maxims (119) [Prudence] Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. - Maxims (152) [Advice] Patience provoked often turns to fury. [Lat., Furor fit laesa saepius patentia.] - Maxims (178) [Anger] Fortune is like glass; when she shines, she is broken. [Lat., Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur.] - Maxims (283) [Fortune] His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. - Maxims (286) [Character] Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness. [Lat., Furor fit laesa saepius patientia.] - Maxims (289) [Patience] Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.] - Maxims (301) [Disease : Proverbs] Displaying page 11 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12
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