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Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

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Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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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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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Kindness will always attract kindness.
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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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.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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A lie never lives to be old.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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