Original text (Latin)
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
Do you fear to trust the word of a man, whose honesty you have seen in business?
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
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