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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

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But time growing old teaches all things.

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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

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It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

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Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

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To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

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What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

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When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

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Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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