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What greater wound is there than a false friend?

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A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
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Accuse Blame Charge Silence Support
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
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.
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Alone Believe Empty Maintain Man Right Talk Thinking Yourself
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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Lying Sweet Unknown
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
Love, you mock us for your sport.
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Funny Love Sport Yourself

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