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 When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Oblivion is the only remedy for wretchedness.

Intemperance is the physician's provider.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

A mistress is an occasion of dishonor.

Fear cannot restrain, when pleasure invites.

Fear old age, for it does not come without company.

That must be always guarded, which you would keep safely.

Fear, and not kindness, restrains the vicious.

There is poor sleeping with care for a bedfellow.

The less Fortune has given, the less can she take away.

The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.

The master who fears his slave, is the greater slave.

The good man can be called miserable, but he is not so.