“Even a single hair casts its shadow.”
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q="even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow"&pg=PA28#v=onepage
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“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
Maxim 790
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“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
Maxim 280
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“A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.”
Maxim 441
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“The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.”
Maxim 24
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“Be your money's master, not its slave.”
Maxim 657
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“We are interested in others, when they are interested in us.”
Maxim 16
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“Every one excels in something in which another fails.”
Maxim 17
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“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”
Maxim 77
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“It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.”
Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas.
Maxim 282
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“His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.”
Maxim 283
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“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”
Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.
Maxim 914
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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”
Maxim 233
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“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
Misattributed as Maxim 7, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=GKFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22To+do+two+things+at+once+is+to+do+neither.%22
Variant of:
Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit
Who chases two rabbits catches neither.
A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467&dq=%22duos+qui+sequitur+lepores+neutrum+capit%22
Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity.
Misattributed
“To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.”
Maxim 113
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“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”
Maxim 143
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“He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.”
Maxim 459
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“He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.”
Maxim 97
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