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Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

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Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

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It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time but they will be remembered and bro...more

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some v...more

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[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.