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What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his
duty to avoid.
The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.
The sheep has no choice when in the jaws of the wolf.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest
bond of friendship.
To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest
bond of friendship.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
