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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
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
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
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
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
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
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
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Dangerous Evidence Fake Reason

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