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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
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Obedience to authority saves many skins
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.
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You should not consider a man's age but his acts.
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A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.
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Not even old age knows how to love death.
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Silence gives the proper grace to women
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him it cannot be shirked.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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There are some who praise a man free from disease to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
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