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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.

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The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
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
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
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
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man

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