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He who quarrels with a drunk, quarrels with an absent one.

He who tolerates a friend's faults makes them his own.

He who has lost his honor cannot lose anything more than that.

Fortune is frivolous: what it gave, it will take back.

To destroy someone's honor is to destroy your own.

The absence of punishment is only temporary.

Better to inspire envy than pity.

Better to keep a wise silence than to talk nonsense.

Better not to know at all than to know wrongly.

Love and death are inevitable.

To love and be thoughtful at the same time, hardly even the gods can.

Love is won by comfort, not by force.

Love does not mix well with fear.

Any rumor can do harm.

The small flaws of the big ones will surely become big ones.

Even the cubs bite the dead lion.

He who offends even one is a threat to many.

If he forgives much, the strong becomes even stronger.

Not much is enough for fast, nothing is enough for greed.

Silence, for a fool, is the substitute for wisdom.

We humans are always an equal distance from death.

Who you don't want to piss off often, piss off once.

The courage of warriors is based on the foresight of the leader.

Silence is a polite refusal to a request.

In vain he sees Neptune twice shipwrecked.

Breaking vows of love is not punished.

Poverty teaches us what the experience of life is.

If you don't trust a friend, they don't trust you either.

Not doing harm is already a good deed.

Let him not expect good deeds who does not do them himself.