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It is an embarrassment to the possessor to have more than he needs.

What matters it how much you have? There is more which you can not have.

The same man can rarely say a great deal, and say it to the purpose.

Much harder is the lot of kings than that of their subjects.

Not the criminals, but their crimes, it is well to extirpate.

In our hatred of guilt, it is folly to ruin innocence.

It is often better to overlook an injury, then avenge it.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

You had better please one good man than many bad ones.

Keep the golden mean, between saying too much and too little.

Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

If you obey against your will, you are a slave; if of your will, you are an assistant.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

If you gain new friends, don't forget the old