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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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Ideas Kill Man 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
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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Action Teaching Ugly
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
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
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom

And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.

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