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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Drunkenness does not create vice it merely brings it into view.
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Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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