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But it is slavery, not to speak one´s thought.
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Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
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Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
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Do not consider painful what is good for you.
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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
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Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
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The wisest men follow their own directions.
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Waste not fresh tears over olds griefs.
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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Slight not what´s near, while aiming at what´s far.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
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A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
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The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
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Time cancels young pain.
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Man´s best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you´ve heard the other side.
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Leave no stone unturned.
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In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
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My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man´s choice is danger.
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The day is for honest men, the night is for thieves.
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
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What greater grief than the loss of one´s native land.
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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
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Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
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What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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