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If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

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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
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.
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Act Fear Feeling Man Word
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
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Friendship Victory Win 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
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
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
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
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
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.
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Hard Work Remember Success

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