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- Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
- The Talmud
- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- La Fontaine
- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
- Spanish Proverb
- When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
- Ausonius
- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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