To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

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I bend, but I do not break.

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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

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We risk all in being too greedy.

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Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

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