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As for witnesses, one who saw is better than ten who heard.

He is truly honest who asks himself if he is honest enough.

What's the point of talking more?

When well-being is in decline, then friends also seduce you.

He who runs away from his own will have a long time to run.

He who is gentle to anger is wiser.

Whoever wants to eat hazelnuts must break their shell.

He who has lost his shame must be counted lost.

He who has learned from another's misfortune becomes wise easily.

The wise man makes his own happiness.

Courage to misfortune halves misfortune.

Perfectly closed heart.

Don't hit the rock so you don't run out of hands.

Not every age is good to go to school.

Don't keep yourself waiting.

In life, you experience something unexpected more often than something expected.

No one has only happiness.

Need teaches everything to those it touches.

One man cannot know them all.

It's not easy to blow and swallow at the same time.

Old age is a very ugly thing.

Man is shamed only by the punishment he deserves.

I'd rather my enemies envy me than I envy them.

It is more pleasant if you have enlightened your mind from the experience of others, than if others have done it from your experience.

Slavery is the prison of the soul.

Elena on the outside, Hecuba on the inside.

Advice is more valuable than gold.

Silence is a wonderful ingredient in unhappiness.

Fate makes and unmakes as it pleases.

Everything that is made cannot become unmade.