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- The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
- Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC - 27 BC)
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
- Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
- Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Do not consider painful what is good for you.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
- Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
- Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
- Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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