“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.”
Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
Maxim 1060
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“The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.”
Maxim 891
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“Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.”
Maxim 1073
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“Money alone sets all the world in motion.”
Maxim 656
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“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor.
Maxim 63
Variant translation: "Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back."
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“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
Maxim 185
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“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Maxim 872
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“Do not take part in the council, unless you are called.”
Maxim 310
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“Receive an injury rather than do one.”
Maxim 5
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“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
Maxim 675
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“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Maxim 995
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“He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.”
Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
Maxim 6
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“When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”
Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
Maxim 277
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“Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.”
Maxim 927
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“What happens to one man may happen to all.”
Maxim 171
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“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
Maxim 358
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“Either be silent or say something better than silence.”
Maxim 960
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“Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.”
Maxim 156
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“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”
Maxim 35
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“You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”
Maxim 262
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