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“Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.”
“We can love with all our hearts those in whom we recognize great faults.”
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
“It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.”
“Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.”
“If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.”
“Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.”
“Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.”
“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
“It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.”