The character of a man is known from his conversations.

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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How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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One Liner Silence
Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
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At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
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Why should he who is scared be careful?
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Whom the gods love dies young.
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Death God Love Young
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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The good man makes others good.
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The workman still is greater than his work.
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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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Art is man’s refuge from adversity.
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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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