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Of evils one should choose the least.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.]

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

All places are filled with fools.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe. - edited by John Payne Collier,

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.