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Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.
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When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.
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Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.
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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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God’s dice always have a lucky roll.
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Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.
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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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Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
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To him who is in fear everything rustles.
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Not even old age knows how to love death.
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For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.
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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.