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Who Wishes To Give Himself An Abundance Of Business Let Him Equip These Two Things, A Ship And A Woman. For No Two Things Involve More Business, If You Have Begun To Fit Them Out. Nor Are These Two Things Ever Sufficiently Adorned, Nor Is Any Excess Of Adornment Enough For Them.

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Who Wishes To Give Himself An Abundance Of Business Let Him Equip These Two Things, A Ship And A Woman. For No Two Things Involve More Business, If You Have Begun To Fit Them Out. Nor Are These Two Things Ever Sufficiently Adorned, Nor Is Any Excess Of Adornment Enough For Them.

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

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Things Unhoped For Happen Oftener Than Things We Desire.

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To Make Any Gain Some Outlay Is Necessary.

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If You Have Overcome Your Inclination And Not Been Overcome By It, You Have Reason To Rejoice.

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You Must Spend Money, If You Wish To Make Money.

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Conquered, We Conquer.

Slander-mongers And Those Who Listen To Slander, If I Had My Way, Would All Be Strung Up, The Talkers By The Tongue, The Listeners By The Ears.

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

Things Which You Do Not Hope Happen More Frequently Than Things Which You Do Hope.

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

Every Man, However Wise, Needs The Advice Of Some Sagacious Friend In The Affairs Of Life.

The Stronger Always Succeeds.

If You Spend A Thing You Can Not Have It. [lat., Non Tibi Illud Apparere Si Sumas Potest.]

Love Has Both Its Gall And Honey In Abundance: It Has Sweetness To The Taste, But It Presents Bitterness Also To Satiety.

You Love A Nothing When You Love An Ingrate.

Let Deeds Correspond With Words. [lat., Dictis Facta Suppetant.]

The Bell Never Rings Of Itself; Unless Some One Handles Or Moves It It Is Dumb. [lat., Nunquam Aedepol Temere Tinniit Tintinnabulum; Nisi Quis Illud Tractat Aut Movet, Mutum Est, Tacet.]

Flame Is Very Near To Smoke.

Where There Are Sheep, The Wolves Are Never Very Far Away.

Spice A Dish With Love And It Pleases Every Palate.

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

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.]

I Have Taken A Wife, I Have Sold My Sovereignty For A Dowry. [lat., Uxorem Accepi, Dote Imperium Vendidi.]

Riches, Rightly Used, Breed Delight.

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

Know Not What You Know, And See Not What You See. [lat., Etiam Illud Quod Scies Nesciveris; Ne Videris Quod Videris.]

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To Blow And To Swallow At The Same Time Is Not Easy; I Cannot At The Same Time Be Here And Also There. [lat., Simul Flare Sorbereque Haud Facile Est: Ego Hic Esse Et Illic Simul, Haud Potui.]

Food Of Acheron. (grave.) [lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]

The Prudent Man Really Frames His Own Fortunes For Himself.

Man Proposes, God Disposes.

For Nobody Is Curious, Who Isn't Malevolent.

Not By Age But By Capacity Is Wisdom Acquired.

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

Courage Is What Preserves Our Liberty, Safety, Life, And Our Homes And Parents, Our Country And Children. Courage Comprises All Things.

Man Is No Man, But A Wolf

Courage In Danger Is Half The Battle.

Find Me A Reasonable Lover Against His Weight In Gold.

If You Are Wise, Be Wise; Keep What Goods The Gods Provide You.

Feast To-day Makes Fast To-morrow. [lat., Festo Die Si Quid Prodegeris, Profesto Egere Liceat Nisi Peperceris.]

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

It Is Our Human Lot, It Is Heaven's Will, That Sorrow Follow Joy.

It Is Easier To Begin Well Than To Finish Well.

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Enemies Carry A Report In Form Different From The Original.

Feast Today Makes Fast Tomorrow

That Man Is Worthless Who Knows How To Receive A Favor, But Not How To Return One.

Good Things Soon Find A Purchaser.

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.

It Is Customary These Days To Ignore What Should Be Done In Favour Of What Pleases Us.

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Fire Is Next Akin To Smoke.

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Woman Is Certainly The Daughter Of Delay Personified!

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Practice Yourself What You Preach.

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'he Means Well' Is Useless Unless He Does Well.

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

Man Is A Wolf To Man. [lat., Homo Homini Lupus.]

Ah Yes, The Gods Use Us Mortals As Footballs!

He Is A Friend Indeed Who Proves Himself A Friend In Need.

Ones Oldest Friend Is The Best.

A Well-balanced Mind Is The Best Remedy Against Affliction.

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

I Suspect That Hunger Was My Mother.

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

That Which You Know, Know Not; And That Which You See, See Not.

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The Day, Water, Sun, Moon, Night - I Do Not Have To Purchase These Things With Money.

In Everything The Middle Course Is Best: All Things In Excess Bring Trouble To Men. [lat., Modus Omnibus In Rebus, Soror, Optimum Est Habitu; Nimia Omnia Nimium Exhibent Negotium Hominibus Ex Se.]

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You Will Not Be A Chip The Richer.

It Is Best To Know The Worst At Once.

In Wondrous Ways Do The Gods Make Sport With Men. [lat., Miris Modis Di Ludos Faciunt Hominibus.]

He Who Accuses Another Of Wrong Should Look Well Into His Own Conduct.

Let Us Celebrate The Occasion With Wine And Sweet Words.

Modesty Should Accompany Youth.

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

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Out Of Many Evils The Evil Which Is Least Is The Least Of Evils. [lat., E Malis Multis, Malum, Quod Minimum Est, Id Minimum Est Malum.]

And One Eye-witness Weighs More Than Ten Hear-fays. Seeing Is Believing, All The World O'er.

To A Well Deserving Person God Will Show Favor. To An Ill Deserving Person He Will Simply Be Just.

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

Where There Are Friends There Is Wealth.

Patience Is The Best Remedy For Every Trouble.

A Woman Smells Well When She Smells Of Nothing.

It Is Sheer Folly To Take Unwilling Hounds To The Chase.

Your Piping-hot Lie Is The Best Of Lies.

How Often We See The Greatest Genius Buried In Obscurity!

I Much Prefer A Compliment, Even If Insincere, To Sincere Criticism.

A Woman Without Paint Is Like Food Without Salt.

That Least Pleases Us Which Is Most Urged On Us.

He That's In Love, I' Faith, Even If He Is Hungry, Isn't Hungry At All.

It Is Not Fair To Treat As Serious That Which Is Only Said In Joke.

Poverty Is A Thorough Instructress In All The Arts. [lat., Paupertas . . . Omnes Artes Perdocet.]

Arrogance Is The Outgrowth Of Prosperity.

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

The Poor Man Who Enters Into A Partnership With One Who Is Rich Makes A Risky Venture.

Your Tittle-tattlers, And Those Who Listen To Slander, By My Good Will Should All Be Hanged - The Former By Their Tongues, The Latter By The Ears.

Confidence Begets Confidence. Courage, An Independent Spark From Heaven's Bright Throne, By Which The Soul Stands Raised, Triumphant, High, Alone. Courage In Danger Is Half The Battle.

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.

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

If You Say Hard Things You Must Expect To Hear Them In Return.

If You Strike The Goads With Your Fists, Your Hands Suffer Most.

Disgrace Is Immortal, And Living Even When One Thinks It Dead.

He Who Seeks For Gain, Must Be At Some Expense.

In Grasping At Uncertainties We Lost That Which Is Certain.

It Is A Great Plague To Be Too Handsome A Man. [lat., Nimia Est Miseria Nimis Pulchrum Esse Hominem.]

I Am Myself My Own Commander. [lat., Egomet Sum Mihi Imperator.]

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

For Enemies Carry About Slander Not In The Form In Which It Took Its Rise . The Scandal Of Men Is Everlasting; Even Then Does It Survive When You Would Suppose It To Be Dead.

Unexpected Results Are The Rule Rather Than The Exception.

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

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.

Besides That, When Elsewhere The Harvest Of Wheat Is Most Abundant, There It Comes Up Less By One-fourth Than What You Have Sowed. There, Methinks, It Were A Proper Place For Men To Sow Their Wild Oats, Where They Would Not Spring Up.

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

To Snatch The Worm From The Trap.

What Is Thine Is Mine, And All Mine Is Thine. [lat., Quod Tuum'st Meum'st; Omne Meum Est Autem Tuum.]

Tattletales, And Those Who Listen To Their Slander, By My Good Will, Should All Be Hanged. The Former By Their Tongues, The Latter By Their Ears. [lat., Homines Qui Gestant, Quique Auscultant Crimina, Si Meo Arbitratu Liceat, Omnes Pendeant Gestores Linguis, Auditores Auribus.]

How Bitter It Is To Reap A Harvest Of Evil For Good That You Have Done! [lat., Ut Acerbum Est, Pro Benefactis Quom Mali Messem Metas!]

Drink, Live Like The Greeks, Eat, Gorge.

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