Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

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At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

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