"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
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"A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick."
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"Chance never helps those who do not help themselves."
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"Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money."
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"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."
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"They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me."
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"Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself"
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"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."
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"There is no greater evil than anarchy."
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"We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been."
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"Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar."
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"Silence is an ornament for women."
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"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver."
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"Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer."
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"Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty."
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"Be a thrifty steward of thy goods."
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"The tyrant is a child of pride."
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"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."
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"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day."
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"Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came."
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