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Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.
I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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Everything disturbs an absent lover.
