Who timidly requests invites refusal


Latin Proverb

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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who begs timidly courts a refusal. [Lat., Qui timide rogat, Docet negare.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)
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Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
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Who pardons easily invites offense
PIERRE CORNEILLE
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
ABU BAKR
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
PIERRE CORNEILLE
He who puts up with insult invites injury.
YIDDISH PROVERB
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
UNKNOWN
He who puts up with insult invites injury
YIDDISH PROVERB
They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE
A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
CHINESE PROVERB
I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.
LATIN PROVERB
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
LATIN PROVERB
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
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A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
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Glory is the shadow of virtue.
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's pres...
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What is useful cannot be base
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Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.
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The doctor is to be feared more than the disease
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If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then i...
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Better late than never.
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
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Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.
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A learned man has always wealth in himself.
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Every madman thinks all other men mad.
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Clothes make the man.
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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
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Sickness shows us what we are
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When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sen...
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Revenge is a confession of pain
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Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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Never give a child a sword.
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
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It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
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By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
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To have nothing is not poverty
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He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person
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Danger can never be overcome without taking risks
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Even the just may sin with an open chest of gold before them
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Beware the person of one book
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Let the buyer beware
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It is solved by walking
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life
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Revenge is a dish best served cold
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose
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Stupidity is a force unto itself.
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In Blindman's land your one-eyed man's a god
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The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation
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A man is not where he lives, but where he loves
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Everyone excels in something in which another fails.
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Love is a kind of military service.
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Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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Property is robbery
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Dum spiro, spero (Latin), "While I breath, I hope"
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A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor
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After intercourse every animal is sad, except the rooster and the human female
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When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best
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Believe that you have it and you have it
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Live your own life, for you will die your own death
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Love is a kind of military service
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Love cannot be commanded
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He fishes well who uses a golden hook
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Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have
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Though physician to others, yet himself full of sores
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Since you can't copy our pleasures, you begrudge them.
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Things which restrict the common are to be interpreted rigidly
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Submission to one wrong brings on another
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What is done for another is done for oneself
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Beware the tyranny of the minority.
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To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise
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It is easier to pull down than to build up
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When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden
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Glory is the shadow of virtue
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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
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Those who do a thing are consenting parties
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Seek a wife in your own sphere
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He conquers who conquers himself
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Hope sustains the farmer
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All the hours wound you, the last one kills
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It is the heart which makes people eloquent
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Often there is eloquence in a silent look
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He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook
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He dies twice who perishes by his own hand
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Never take the antidote before the poison
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It's an ill plan that cannot be changed
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As to the juror or the witness, bribe both
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To silence another, first be silent yourself
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew
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