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Despair often breeds disease.

Sophocles

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
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
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
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
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
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
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
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

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