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There is no success without hardship.

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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
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
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 tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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One Liner Remember Reward Success
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
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
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
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune

There is no success without hardship.

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