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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
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
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
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
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
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
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

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