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What you can’t enforce, do not command.

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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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Fools Love Remember Yourself
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death Evil Live Myself Source
There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.
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Beyond Justice Point Statement
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
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Friendship Victory Win Yourself
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
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Corruption Currency Kind Man Mindset Money Worst Worth
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Excellence Hands Man Opinion Pervert
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves

What you can’t enforce, do not command.

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