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Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Patience provoked often turns to fury.

Poverty is in want of much, but avarice of everything.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Practice is the best of all instructors.
[Practice]

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.
[Disease]

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.

Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.

Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.

That man has the fewest wants who is the least anxious for wealth.

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.


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