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  • One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. [ Complaining ]


  • The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness; [ Doctors ]


  • The tongue can paint what the eye can't see. [ Persuasion ]


  • Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. [ Doubt ]


  • Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life. [ Respectability ]


  • Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. [ Will ]


  • Biggest profits mean gravest risks. [ Danger ]


  • The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. [ Victory ]


  • Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. [ Growth ]


  • Climb mountains to see lowlands. [ Growth ]


  • A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. [ Decisions ]


  • The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him. [ Enemies ]


  • He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. [ Conscience ]


  • Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. [ Simplicity ]


  • Your friend has a friend; don't tell him. [ Gossip ]


  • A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. [ Home ]


  • A maker of idols is never an idolater. [ Religion ]


  • Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. [ Progress ]


  • You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. [ Control ]


  • When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries. [ Worry ]


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