Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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Art is man’s refuge from adversity.
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The good man makes others good.
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At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
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There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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A man that runs away may fight again.
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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
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All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
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Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
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The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.
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There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
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It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
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Silence is often advantageous.
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