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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

Sophocles

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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
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
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
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
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
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
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
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
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
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
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge

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