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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
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
Who seeks shall find.
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Finding Search Seek
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
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 truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
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
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

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