If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

There is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
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Love Oneself Potion
A man that runs away may fight again.
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Coward Fight Man Run
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Anand Thakur
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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The good man makes others good.
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
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Conscience is a God to all mortals.
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
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No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
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All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
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Known Man Refuge Smile
To live is not to live for one’s self; let us help one another.
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The character of a man is known from his conversations.
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It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
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Shoulder Wisdom Young
There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
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At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
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