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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

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Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.
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Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
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Stranger in a strange country.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
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It is best to live anyhow, as one may do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
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When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
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In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
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Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
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Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
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