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The happiest life is to be without thought.

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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
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
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
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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Administration Fear Law Man Obedience People Stand State
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain

The happiest life is to be without thought.

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