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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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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Success, remember is the reward of toil.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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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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Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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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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