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They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.

Modesty becomes a young man.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

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.

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.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The stronger always succeeds.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

Woe to the vanquished!

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.