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A single hour may often compensate for the losses of ten years.

He who makes a shipwreck a second time does wrong to accuse Neptune.

None but the innocent in the midst of danger hope for good.

It is harder to judge between friends than enemies.

He who subdues his temper vanquishes his greatest enemy.

Call yourself happy, and you invite [the visits of] misfortune.

Fear the envy of your friends more than the snares of your enemies.

Malice swallows the greater part of its own venom.

There is the greatest danger in guarding what the multitude covet.

I am not your friend unless I share in your fortune.

Death is a blessing to infancy, bitter for youth, too tardy for old age.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.

A single instant brings much to pass that no one dreams of.

Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a