Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

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Please all, and you will please none.

Please all, and you will please none.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good...

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good...

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit

Appearances are often deceiving.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties

Example is the best precept.

Example is the best precept.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we...

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we...

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his...

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his...

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you...

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you...

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing...

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing...

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.