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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
SOPHOCLES

Blind Man See
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
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
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
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
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
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
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

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