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A mind at peace does not engender wars.

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How dangerous can false reasoning prove!
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Dangerous Evidence Fake Reason
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
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Few Wisdom Word
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
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement 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
The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.
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Dignity Kind Learning Loss Man Opinion Pronounce Right Thinking Word
It is hope that maintains most of mankind.
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Hope Kind Maintain Man
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
Without labor nothing prospers.
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Labor Prosperity
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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Cure Evil Fate Pain Try Yourself
Not to be born surpasses all reckoning. The next best thing by far, when one has been born is to go back as swiftly as possible whence one came.
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Best Born Oneself Possible Reckon
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
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Destroy Drive Himself Mad
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule

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