"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."
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"Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths."
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"Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell."
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"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."
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"Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety."
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"Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad."
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"Gods should not resemble men in their anger!"
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"Ill-gotten wealth is never stable."
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"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."
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"Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience."
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"Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper."
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"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
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"The brave venture anything."
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"A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises."
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"Fate finds for every man; his share of misery."
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"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."
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"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."
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"O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade."
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"I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known."
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"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."
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