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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
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Gift God High Kind Man Plant
Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.
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Existence Thinking Wisdom
What people believe prevails over the truth.
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Believe People Thinking Truth
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
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
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
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
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
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
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked

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