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 It is bad management when we suffer fortune to be our guide.

The physician were ill, if no one else were ill.

Supreme power may be lost by an abuse of power.

The patient treats his case badly when he makes the physician his heir.

He must have lived ill, who knows not how to die well.

By showing how an evil can be done, you make it worse.

They live ill who expect to live always.

Malevolence keeps its teeth hidden.

He who is bent on doing evil, can never want occasion.

An envious disposition feeds upon itself.

It is a sad victory which brings repentance in the hour of triumph.

The ungrateful above all others, teach us severity and distrust.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

Depravity pretends to goodness, that it may be worse than before.