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

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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

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You win the victory when you yield to friends.

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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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A man growing old becomes a child again.

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Silence is an ornament for women.

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Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

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Success is dependent on effort.

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Always desire to learn something useful.

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A short saying often contains much wisdom.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

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Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

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Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

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Success is dependent on effort.

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To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

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Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

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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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Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

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Without labor nothing prospers.

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