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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
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
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
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
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Adversity Ourselves Recognition Sorrow
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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One Liner Remember Reward Success
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

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