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815.

The next day is never so good as the day before.

816.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

817.

When you give to avarice you invite an injury.

818.

When you forgive an enemy you gain many friends.

819.

When a wise man conquers himself, his conquest is worth something.

820.

When vice is profitable, he errs who does right.[1]

821.

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

822.

It is robbery to receive a favor which you cannot return.

823.

It is robbing, not asking, when you take from a man against his will.

824.

That must be rare which you desire to be a long time precious.

825.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

826.

Youth should be governed by reason, not by fo

  1. * This maxim is at once the climax of worldly wisdom and genuine folly, and was probably put by Syrus in the mouth of some unscrupulous scoundrel personated in a mime.