"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
False Words
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Knowledge
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Death
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
A Philosopher
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Busy Life
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
The Bait
"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
Tyranny
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
Friendship
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
You
"Be as you wish to seem."
Marriage or Celibacy
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."