“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”
Maxim 786
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“Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.”
Maxim 144
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“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”
Maxim 715
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“Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.”
Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
Maxim 911; one of the most famous renditions of the ancient Greek proverb (which is anonymous and dates to the 5th century BCE or earlier). The provenance of the proverb and its English versions is at Wikiquote's Euripides page, under the heading "Misattributed".
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“The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.”
Maxim 38
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“Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.”
Maxim 1075
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“Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.”
Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas
Maxim 123
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“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”
Maxim 338
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“Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.”
Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia.
Maxim 236
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“Success makes some crimes honorable.”
Maxim 326
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“Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.”
Maxim 191
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“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest.
Maxim 469
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“Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.”
Maxim 305
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“There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.”
Maxim 23
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“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
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“Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.”
Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus.
Maxim 14
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Variant: "Debt is the slavery of the free."
“Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.”
Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio.
Maxim 1060
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“The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.”
Maxim 891
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“Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.”
Maxim 1073
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“Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.”
Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor.
Maxim 63
Variant translation: "Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back."
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“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”
Maxim 872
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“Do not take part in the council, unless you are called.”
Maxim 310
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“Receive an injury rather than do one.”
Maxim 5
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“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”
Maxim 675
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“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”
Maxim 995
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“He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.”
Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
Maxim 6
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“When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.”
Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
Maxim 277
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“Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.”
Maxim 927
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“What happens to one man may happen to all.”
Maxim 171
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“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest.
Maxim 358
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“Either be silent or say something better than silence.”
Maxim 960
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“Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.”
Maxim 156
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“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”
Maxim 35
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“You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.”
Maxim 262
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“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”
Maxim 138
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“Practice is the best of all instructors.”
Maxim 439
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“The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.”
Maxim 388
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“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
Maxim 401
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“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
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“If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.”
Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras.
Maxim 27
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“We should provide in peace what we need in war.”
Maxim 709
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“In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.”
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Maxim 357
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“Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.”
The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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“Even when there is no law, there is conscience.”
Maxim 237
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