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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man Yourself
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
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
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
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 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
A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
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 greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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