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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
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
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
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

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