The happiest life is to be without thought.
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The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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The happiest life is to be without thought.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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There is no success without hardship.
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The good befriend themselves.
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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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