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 Consult your conscience, rather than popular opinion.

Consider what you ought to say, and not what you think.

You will gain your point better by moderation than anger.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Man's most prudent counselor is time.

Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not be listened to.

Folly had rather be unheard than be buffeted.

It is hard to touch that which brings pain by mere contact.

A god can hardly disturb a man truly happy.

Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.

It is folly to be too frank with impudent familiarity.

Let fly many arrows, and no two will hit in the same place.

He who longs for death, confesses that life is a failure.

The sick man's intemperance makes the physician relentless.