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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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There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
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
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
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Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
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

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