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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.
How to get rid of having anything to unlearn.
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.
I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead , in the other case while alive .
The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.
The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

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