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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

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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
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
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
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

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