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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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst 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
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom

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