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- I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
- Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
- A good scare is worth more than good advice.
- Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so…
- A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what…
- A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.
- Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
- The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
- Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
- Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!
- Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
- Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
- As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
- Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
- For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
- Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
- Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
- If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
- Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
- If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
- The age of our fathers, which was worse than that of our ancestors, produced us, who are about to raise a progeny even more vicious…
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