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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

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Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
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Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.
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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Success is the reward for toil.
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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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Pardon, and keep silent, for what is shameful for women must be concealed among women.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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