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  • I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
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  • He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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  • Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
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  • O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
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  • I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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  • In war, truth is the first casualty.
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  • It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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  • His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
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  • Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
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  • Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
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  • Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
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  • It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
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  • Time as he grows old teaches all things.
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  • Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
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  • For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
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