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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

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He has gone over to the majority.
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Himself Majority
Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
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Finding Happiness Oneself Pleasure Rose
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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Oneself Vulture Women
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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Beautiful Rare Wisdom
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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Favor Hardship
What power has law where only money rules?
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Law Money Power Rule
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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Doctor Spirit
The mind longs for what it has missed.
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Mindset Missing
Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
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Advice Beg Dumb See Yourself
While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
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Face Fortune Friendship
The world wants to be deceived.
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Betrayal World
One good turn deserves another.
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Deserve Goodness Turn
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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Creature Food Hope
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
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Believe Business Man
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
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Believe Complete Fools Life Man Ordinary School Young
Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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Conception False Moral People

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

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