A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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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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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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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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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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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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A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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