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This book compiles a series of maxims and reflections that offer profound wisdom and guidance on a wide range of life issues, including personal growth, ethics, and societal values.
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“If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.”
“Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.”
“If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.”
“If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.”
“Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.”
“If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.”
“Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.”