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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
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
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
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
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
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
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity

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