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 The greater our strength, the less we know of the power of misfortune.

In the art of praying, necessity is the best of teachers.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

A great fortune sits gracefully on a great man.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

Mighty rivers may easily be leaped at their source.

Excessive indignation is sometimes evidence of a great crime.

It is a bad cause that takes refuge in the lenity of the judge.

Hard to bear is the poverty which follows [a bad use of] riches.

It is a bad medicine that exhausts the powers of nature.

It is a sorry pleasure which is dispensed at the pleasure of another.

A miserable death is an insult from destiny.

Dispositions naturally bad have little need of a teacher.

When you merely wish for what is disgraceful, you violate decorum.