Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

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