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We Should Try To Succeed By Merit, Not By Favor. He Who Does Well Will Always Have Patrons Enough. [lat., Virtute Ambire Oportet, Non Favitoribus. Sat Habet Favitorum Semper, Qui Recte Facit.]

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We Should Try To Succeed By Merit, Not By Favor. He Who Does Well Will Always Have Patrons Enough. [lat., Virtute Ambire Oportet, Non Favitoribus. Sat Habet Favitorum Semper, Qui Recte Facit.]

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I Seek The Utmost Pleasure And The Least Pain.

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Smooth Words In Place Of Gifts. [lat., Dicta Docta Pro Datis.]

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There Is Indeed A God That Hears And Sees Whate'er We Do. [lat., Est Profecto Deus, Qui, Quae Nos Gerimus, Auditque Et Videt.]

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Wine Is A Cunning Wrestler.

Badly Gotten, Badly Spent. [lat., Male Partum, Male Disperit.]

It Is Only When We Have Lost Them That We Fully Appreciate Our Blessings.

I Count Him Lost, Who Is Lost To Shame. [lat., Nam Ego Illum Periisse Duco, Cui Quidem Periit Pudor.]

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This Is The Great Fault Of Wine; It First Trips Up The Feet: It Is A Cunning Wrestler.

If Anything Is Spoken In Jest, It Is Not Fair To Turn It To Earnest.

What Is Yours Is Mine, And All Mine Is Yours.

Men Understand The Worth Of Blessings Only When They Have Lost Them.

Courage Is Its Own Reward.

To Love Is Human, It Is Also Human To Forgive.

I Am Undone! I Have Smashed The Waggon. [i Have Ruined All.]

Little Do You Know What A Gloriously Uncertain Thing Law Is.

He Who Falls In Love Meets A Worse Fate Than He Who Leaps From A Rock.

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For Nobody Is Curious, Who Isn't Malevolent.

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Things We Not Hope For Often Come To Pass Than Things We Wish.

If You Squander On A Holyday, You Will Want On A Workday Unless You Have Been Sparing.

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Modesty Should Accompany Youth.

He Whom The Gods Love Dies Young.

It Is Easier To Begin Well Than To Finish Well.

Worthy Things Happen To The Worthy.

Let Us Celebrate The Occasion With Wine And Sweet Words.

Flying Without Feathers Is Not Easy: My Wings Have No Feathers.

Always Bring Money Along With Your Complaints.

He Who Rushes Headlong Into Love Will Fare Worse Than If He Had Cast Himself From A Precipice.

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Whatever Disgrace We May Have Deserved, It Is Almost Always In Our Power To Re-establish Our Character.

If You Want To Do Something, Do It!

The Mind Is Hopeful; Success Is In God's Hands. [lat., Sperat Quidem Animus: Quo Eveniat, Diis In Manu Est.]

We Are Pouring Our Words Into A Sieve, And Lose Our Labor. [lat., In Pertusum Ingerimus Dicta Dolium, Operam Ludimus.]

I Love Truth And Wish To Have It Always Spoken To Me: I Hate A Liar. [lat., Ego Verum Amo, Verum Volo Mihi Dici; Mendacem Odi.]

Ones Oldest Friend Is The Best.

He Gains Wisdom In A Happy Way, Who Gains It By Another's Experience. [lat., Feliciter Sapit Qui Alieno Periculo Sapit.]

Woman Is Certainly The Daughter Of Delay Personified!

Keep What You Have Got; The Known Evil Is Best. [lat., Habeas Ut Nactus; Nota Mala Res Optima Est.]

Where There Are Friends There Is Wealth.

He Who Would Eat The Kernel, Must Crack The Shell. [lat., Qui E Nuce Nucleum Esse Vult, Frangat Nucem.]

In Everything The Middle Road Is Best.

He Is A Friend Who, In Dubious Circumstances, Aids In Deeds When Deeds Are Necessary.

If You Speak Insults You Will Hear Them Also.

You Have Eaten A Meal Dangerously Seasoned. [you Have Laid Up A Grief In Store For Yourself.]

In Misfortune If You Cultivate A Cheerful Disposition You Will Reap The Advantage Of It.

A Mouse Does Not Rely On Just One Hole.

If You Are Content, You Have Enough To Live Comfortably.

To Ask That Which Is Unjust At The Hands Of The Just, Is An Injustice In Itself; To Expect That Which Is Just From The Unjust, Is Simple Folly.

He Who Has In Due Season Become Rich, Unless He Saves In Due Season, Will In Due Season Starve.

To Snatch The Worm From The Trap.

There Are Games In Which It Is Better To Lose Than Win.

Courage Is To Take Hard Knocks Like A Man When Occasion Calls.

There's No Such Thing, You Know, As Picking Out The Best Woman: It's Only A Question Of Comparative Badness, Brother.

For I Know That Many Good Things Have Happened To Many, When Least Expected; And That Many Hopes Have Been Disappointed.

He Who Bravely Endures Evils, In Time Reaps The Reward.

You Will Stir Up The Hornets. [lat., Irritabis Crabones.]

Every One Can Remember That Which Has Interested Himself.

In Everything The Middle Course Is The Best; Everything In Excess Brings Trouble.

A Contented Mind Is The Best Source For Trouble.

Nothing But Heaven Itself Is Better Than A Friend Who Is Really A Friend.

Things Unhoped For Happen Oftener Than Things We Desire.

He Is Hailed A Conqueror Of Conquerors. [lat., Victor Victorum Cluet.]

If I Can Only Keep My Good Name, I Shall Have Riches Enough.

It Is Difficult To Whistle And Drink At The Same Time.

No Man Will Be Respected By Others Who Is Despised By His Own Relatives.

I Suspect That Hunger Was My Mother.

How Great In Number Are The Little Minded Men

The Man Who Would Be Fully Employed Should Procure A Ship Or A Woman, For No Two Things Produce More Trouble.

The Man Who Masters His Own Soul Will Forever Be Called Conqueror Of Conquerors.

We Only Appreciate The Comforts Of Life In Their Loss.

It Is A Tiresome Way Of Speaking, When You Should Despatch The Business, To Beat About The Bush.

Property Is Unstable, And Youth Perishes In A Moment. Life Itself Is Held In The Grinning Fangs Of Death, Yet Men Delay To Obtain Release From The World. Alas, The Conduct Of Mankind Is Surprising.

And So It Happens Oft In Many Instances; More Good Is Done Without Our Knowledge Than By Us Intended. [lat., Itidemque Ut Saepe Jam In Multis Locis, Plus Insciens Quis Fecit Quam Prodens Boni.]

Women Have Many Faults, But The Worst Of Them All Is That They Are Too Pleased With Themselves And Take Too Little Pains To Please The Men.

We Can More Easily Endure That Which Shames Than That Which Vexes Us.

He Can Do Most Who Has Most Power.

Fortune Moulds And Circumscribes Human Affairs As She Pleases. [lat., Fortuna Humana Fingit Artatque Ut Lubet.]

I Count Him Lost, Who Is Lost To Shame.

Conquered, We Conquer.

No Man Has Perpetual Good Fortune. [lat., Nulli Est Homini Perpetuum Bonum.]

Know This, That Troubles Come Swifter Than The Things We Desire.

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