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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.

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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
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
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
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
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
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 wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
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
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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One Liner Remember Reward Success
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
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
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
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
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
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
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

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