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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.

Sophocles

A lie never lives to be old.
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Live Lying Old One Liner
The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Children One Liner Pride
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
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
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
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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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
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

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