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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

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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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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
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
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
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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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
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
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Conquer Evil Ignorance Tough
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Friendship Victory Win Yourself

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