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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Publius Syrus. (42 B.C.) (continued)
 
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    He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so.
          Maxim 598.
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    A guilty conscience never feels secure. 1
          Maxim 617.
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    Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. 2
          Maxim 633.
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    Familiarity breeds contempt. 3
          Maxim 640.
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    Money alone sets all the world in motion.
          Maxim 656.
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    He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
          Maxim 673.
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    You should go to a pear-tree for pears, not to an elm. 4
          Maxim 674.
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    It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
          Maxim 675.
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    We should provide in peace what we need in war. 5
          Maxim 709.
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    Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.
          Maxim 723.
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    How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
          Maxim 725.
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    They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands. 6
          Maxim 759.
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    He gets through too late who goes too fast.
          Maxim 767.
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    In every enterprise consider where you would come out. 7
          Maxim 777.
 
Note 1.
See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 109. [back]
Note 2.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Meditations, ii. 5. [back]
Note 3.
See Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Quotation 7. [back]
Note 4.
You may as well expect pears from an elm.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. book ii. chap. xl. [back]
Note 5.
See Washington, Quotation 2. [back]
Note 6.
The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.—Plutarch: Of the Tranquillity of the Mind. [back]
Note 7.
In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.—Epictetus: That everything is to be undertaken with circumspection, chap. xv. [back]