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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it... →
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.