"A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good"
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"Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships."
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"The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water."
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"The happiest life is to be without thought"
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"It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced."
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"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength"
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"God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury."
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"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."
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"Brave hearts do not back down back off."
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"Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God."
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"Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease."
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"The good befriend themselves."
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"Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil."
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"Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them."
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"It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good."
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either."
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"Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed."
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"For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more."
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"Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue."
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"Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage."
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