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"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."
"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."
"Despair often breeds disease."
"It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong."
"Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn."
"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."
"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."
"Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted."
"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune."
"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness."
"He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life."
"The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others."
"Remember, nothing succeeds without toil."
"Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds."
"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."
"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear."
"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."
"There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
"A lie never lives to be old."