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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

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Applause

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

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Fool

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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Time

Word

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

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Dignity

Office

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

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Dreams

Will

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

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Courtesy

Injustice

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

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Hope

Judgment

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

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God

Nothing

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

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Existence

Friends

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

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Ability

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.