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Kindness will always attract kindness.

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
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
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
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
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Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Strong Weakness
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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Friendship Himself Life Throw
A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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Himself Luck Player Wisdom
Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.
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Brought Courage God
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
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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Friendship Stubborn Stupidity

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