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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish."
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"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."

"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."

"It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence."

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"
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