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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
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
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
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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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself

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