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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
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
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth

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