"Success is the reward for toil."
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"Success is dependant on effort."
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"Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend."
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"I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature."
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"And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let's just say I've been accused of folly by a fool."
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"Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal."
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"Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain."
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"Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead."
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"Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men."
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"An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift."
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"The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past."
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"What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods."
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"Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest."
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"Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?"
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"The sleep of a sick man has keen eyes. It is a sleep unsleeping."
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"You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear."
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"Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came"
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"For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly."
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"Men's minds are given to change in hate and friendship."
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