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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.

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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
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
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
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
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Food Myself Recommend
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
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
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement

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