Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
It is a bad plan that cannot be altered.
It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
Frugality is misery in disguise.
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
It matters not how long you live, but how well.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.
No one reaches a high position without daring.
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