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The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

Sophocles

Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
Opportunity has power over all things.
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One Liner Opportunity Power
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
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
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong

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