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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?

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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
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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Expose Hide Reality Time
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Conquer Evil Ignorance Tough
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom

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