"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk" — Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master

Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive

We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it

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