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Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
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
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
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
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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Inscription Myself Promise Water Woman
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
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Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success

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