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A good conscience never utters mere lip-prayers.

A man of courage never endures an insult; an honorable man never offers one.

Even for wisdom it is a hard matter to bear affliction.

Any opportunity is a good one to him who thirsts for vengeance.

The life of that man is detested by the citizens, whose death is expected by his friends.

He is not considered a dupe who understood that he was deceived.

Call a man an ingrate, and you give him all manner of bad names in one.

The service is twofold greater when it is promptly rendered.

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.

It is an advantage not to possess that which you must hold against your will.

Disgrace is honorable when you die in a good cause.

Cruel punishments do no honor to the king's majesty.

The exile without a home, is a dead man without sepulture.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures it