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It is folly to take vengeance on another to your own injury.

It is folly to punish your neighbour by fire when you live next door.

Whom fortune wishes to destroy, she first makes mad.

It is folly for him to rule over others who cannot govern himself.

He is a fool who envies the happiness of the proud.

Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.

He preserves his family's property who does not waste his own.

Benevolence tries persuasion first, and the severer measures.

A pleasant life this, if you know nothing; for ignorance is a painless evil.

The stolen ox sometimes puts his head out of the stall.

A lax government can not maintain its authority.

A boastful prosperity will prepare its own fall.

He favors the enemy who does not spare his own soldiers.

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