No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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We men are wretched things.
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Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
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Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
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Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
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The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.
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It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
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Death submits to no one.
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
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No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
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Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe.
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Too many kings can ruin an army.
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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The force of union conquers all.
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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