In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

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