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Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

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When trouble ends even troubles please.

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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

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There is no greater evil than anarchy.

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If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

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If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

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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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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

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There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

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You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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A lie never lives to be old.

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A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

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Even a poor man can receive honors.

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