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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
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
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
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
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
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
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning

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