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“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.”
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
“The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.”
“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
“Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.”
“The walls of Athens are impregnable, Their firmest bulwarks her heroic sons.”
“But when a man speeds toward his own ruin, a god gives him help.”
“Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears.”
“Mankind's troubles flicker about, and you'll nowhere see misery fly on the same wings.”
“Thou are a better counsellor to others Than to thyself:—I judge by deeds not words.”
“If I grieve, I do not therefore wish to multiply The griefs of others.”
“For stubborness, if one be in the wrong, Is in itself weaker than naught at all.”
“In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship”
“He has the wisdom of an old man, but his body is at its prime”
“I, of set will, speak words the wise may learn, To others, nought remember nor discern.”
“Justice turns the scale For those to whom through pain At last comes wisdom's gain.”