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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
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 happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
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
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
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
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
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

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