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Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
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
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
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
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
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
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
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
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
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
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

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