Apothegms. No. 193.

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

Apothegms. No. 206.

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

Apothegms. No. 247.

Footnotes

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As aromatic plants bestow

No spicy fragrance while they grow;

But crushed or trodden to the ground,