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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Sophocles

To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
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
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Conquer Evil Ignorance Tough
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

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