Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

Look for the love, you will find the beauty.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.

Brothers naturally invite comparison.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

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