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It is of advantage to be conquered when our own victory would be a loss.

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

The sound of a harp will not stay the flight of a fugitive.

A good man should not know how to do an injury.

You can accomplish by kindness what you can not by force.

No one can honorably refuse to love virtue.

False modesty is a false embarrassment to every virtue.

It is better to trust virtue than fortune.

Labor rejoices when it sees the rewards of virtue.

The semblance of courage gains a part of every victory.

It is nature, not his standing, that makes a good man.

Do not take a bad man for your companion on a journey.

Would you be known by every body? Then you know nobody.

Life and reputation travel on with equal p