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Quot homines tot sententiae: suo quoque mos.
As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

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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.

Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said before.

Do you fear to trust the word of a man, whose honesty you have seen in business?

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their own.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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