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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
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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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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