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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.

Sophocles

Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
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
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking 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
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
Opportunity has power over all things.
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One Liner Opportunity Power
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
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
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking

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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