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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
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
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
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
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
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
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
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
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand

Without labor nothing prospers.

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