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Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Sophocles

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
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
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
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
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
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Friendship Victory Win Yourself
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
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 recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
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
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
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
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success

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