Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.