To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
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While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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