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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

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Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
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
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand 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

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

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