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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophocles

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
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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Coward Faint Fortune Luck
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
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
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
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Failure Goodness Himself Man Wisdom
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
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
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
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
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend

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