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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

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A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Healing One Liner Ourselves Sorrow Time
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
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
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
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
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
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
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek

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