"It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him."
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"Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate."
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"No honest man will argue on every side"
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"You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea."
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"I cannot love a friend whose love is words."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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"Success, remember is the reward of toil."
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"What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!"
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"No oath can be too binding for a lover."
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"Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted."
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"All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead."
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"As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!"
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"It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it."
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"To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle."
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"You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all."
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"Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart."
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"You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad."
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"For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life."
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"There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be called blest or wretched."
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"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."
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