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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

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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
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
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Greatness Missing Yourself
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
There is no success without hardship.
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Hard Time One Liner Success
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
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Help Luck Need Oneself
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
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

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