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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo).

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

If you cannot be chaste, be cautious.

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

He who marries a widow will often have a dead man's head thrown in his dish.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we get.