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 A mean man's generosity is a generous man's meanness.

A good man loves to sit at a good man's table.

In the presence of a good man, anger is speedily cooled.

It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

The good which is prevented is not annihilated.

The slower to kindle, the more terrible the wrath of a generous soul.

The good man never coquets with iniquity.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

There is no sight in the eye, which the mind does not gaze.

While teasing for horns, the camel lost his ears.

He keeps furthest from danger who looks out while he is safe.

A chaste wife rules her husband by deferring to his wishes.

Misfortune sometimes visits him whom she has often passed by.