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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
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Greatness Hands Opinion Power
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return 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
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
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Dangerous Evidence Fake Reason
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
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Justice Mistake Security
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
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
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World

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