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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy Thinking
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
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Healing One Liner Ourselves Sorrow Time
The good befriend themselves.
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Acceptance Friendship Goodness
Stranger in a strange country.
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Country One Liner Stranger
A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
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Man Mindset Sick Wisdom
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
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Bad Love Messenger News
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
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Fortune Hard Work Lazy
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
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
A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.
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Man Oneself State
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
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

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