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The truth is always the strongest argument.

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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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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
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
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
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
In season, all is good.
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Goodness One Liner Season
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
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
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
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
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
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
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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