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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.]
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Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Modesty should accompany youth.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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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!]
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
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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.
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