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When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

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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
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
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
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
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
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
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

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

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