Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

215

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

180

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

168

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

155

Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.

138

'Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.' [That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.]

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