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Try not to say bombastic phrases, but talk to the point.

There is no greater folly than foolish human prejudice and more vulgar than feigned harshness.

No one is ever satisfied.

He who has offended strangers is called a robber, and he who has offended his friends is like a murderer of parents

You only go to a foreign country and that's how you'll understand that dogs with pretzels in their tails walk around here.

Those parents who do not raise their children in compliance with strict rules are worthy of reproach.

The sun gives light to all.

An old love does not forget.

Those who aim only at enrichment do not want to believe that there are other goods for people, superior to those they long for.

Only the heart makes a man, a man; all the rest are trifles.

He who does not kill his opponent in battle is twice victorious.

On the other you see the lice, but on you you don't even notice the tick.

The man of a noble mind cannot bear trifles, and his spirit can neither begin nor create anything unless it is watered with the living water of knowledge.

Whatever you learn, you learn for yourself.

What can laws do where money rules?

He (Pliny the Elder) never read anything without taking notes, and he liked to say that there is no book so bad that you cannot find something useful in it.

The householder's forehead is more useful than the back of his neck.

The mind is reflected in the sickness of the soul.

Agriculture is based on work, not profit.

How many things were considered impossible before being put into practice!...

When it comes to those who are absent, in these moments, their ears ring.

When the ship is about to sink, all the rats leave it.

We are denied a long life; let us, therefore, leave behind us works that will prove that we existed!

There is no art more useful than medicine.

There is no indulgence that does not eventually turn into embezzlement.

There is no animal that does not shed tears, even from the first day of its appearance in the world. But laughter, the first laughter, appears in humans only after the fortieth day of life!