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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
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
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
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God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
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
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
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
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
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
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
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Attraction Kindness One Liner
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True

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