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It is the height of folly to blame without knowledge.

We can lament for that which is lost, but we cannot get it back.

What we admire, we never cease commending to ourselves.

That does not always please us which is always within reach.

The world thinks that old age always speaks wisely.

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we had hoped.

If matters not with what purpose you do it, if the act itself be bad.

That which is hardly brought to pass hardly gives pleasure.

Passion dreams of what it desires, not of what is becoming.

He can have what he wishes who wishes just enough.

When the soul rules over itself its empire is lasting.

Even the Milesians were once valiant.

Calamity can easily discover whomsoever she seeks.

A man has as many enemies in his own house as he has slaves.

He is condemned every day who stands in daily fear of condemnation.