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Brave hearts do not back down back off.

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
Always desire to learn something useful.
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Desire Knowledge Learning
When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.
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Myself Talk Understand
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
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Freedom Love Oneself Pain Weight Word
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
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Chance Help Opportunity
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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Conquer Evil Ignorance Tough
Remember there is no success without hard work.
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Hard Work Remember Success
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
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Blame Fate Fortune Worst
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
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

Brave hearts do not back down back off.

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