There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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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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What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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