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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
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I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother my sisters are the Seasons my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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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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Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach
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Not all things are to be discovered many are better concealed.
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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