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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

No possession is gratifying without a companion.

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.