Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.


Vietnamese Proverb

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Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
ERNESTO 'CHE' GUEVARA
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
DOLORES IBARRURI (PASIONARIA)
Better die with honor than live with shame.
ENGLISH PROVERB
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
EMILIANO ZAPATA
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
EMILIANO ZAPATA
Better to live shamed than die proud.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
DOLORES IBARRURI
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA
Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees
EMILIANO ZAPATA
It is better to live richly than to die rich.
It is better to live rich, than to die rich.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is better to die giving all,than to live holding all.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
MICHAEL CRICHTON
It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.
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AFRICAN PROVERBS
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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Live with a mission; act with passion.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partne...
DAVID OGILVY
Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH
That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.
KAREN MARIE MONING
Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p...
JANE BENNETT
Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun
HANS FLEISCHER
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Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l...
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Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.
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Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life.
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Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
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I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow...
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Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite.
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Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.
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But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
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AFRICAN PROVERB
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WHITTAKER CHAMBERS
I am better than my reputation.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
I am better than my reputation.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
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NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.
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People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses
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Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.
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One often gets what one disdains
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Never forget benefits done you, regardless how small
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When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree
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To know and not to do is not to know
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
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Short judgments make long friends.
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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
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From small beginnings come great things.
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Some will, some don't, so what!
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Try and trust will move mountains.
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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
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Make peace with man and war with your sins.
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A sin confessed is half forgiven.
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All sins cast long shadows.
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Simplicity is the seal of truth.
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A silent mouth is melodious.
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Silence implies consent.
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The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
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Shame is worse than death.
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God likes help when helping people.
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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
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Attack is the best form of defense.
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Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
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A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
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It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Better to be safe than sorry.
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Kings have many ears and eyes.
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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
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Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
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A soft answer turneth away wrath.
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Cunning surpasses strength.
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What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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Rest breeds rust.
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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.
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Respect starts with yourself.
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He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy.
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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
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Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar.
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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.
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By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.
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Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
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A wicked book cannot repent.
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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He loses his thanks who promises and delays.
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There are no greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home.
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Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
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Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.
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Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
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Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
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Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.
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One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Practice is the best master.
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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
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Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
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In teaching others we teach ourselves.
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He who does not research has nothing to teach.
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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains,...
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.
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Who has a trade may go anywhere.
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No one was ever lost on a straight road.
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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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Those that will not hear must be made to feel.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
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If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.
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The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
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Rome was not built in a day.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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Necessity unites.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.
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