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So long as your position is good, your defects will remain covered.
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The most capable of pardoning is he who is most powerful to punish.
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Generosity is that which is by one’s own initiative, because giving on being asked is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke.
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There is no wealth like wisdom, no destitution like ignorance, no inheritance like refinement and no support like consultation.
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Patience is of two kinds, patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.
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With wealth a strange land is a homeland, while with destitution even a homelandis a strange land.
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Contentment is wealth that does not diminish.
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Wealth is the fountain head of passions.
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Whoever warns you is like one who gives you good tidings.
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The tongue is a beast; if it is let loose, it devours.
