The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

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