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

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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
Opportunity has power over all things.
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One Liner Opportunity Power
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
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
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
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
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
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
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
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
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use

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