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What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Habit One Liner Strong
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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Anger Beast Fair Peace
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Anxiety Pleasure Pure
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Death Delicate Ideas Kill Man Sneer Yawn
Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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Concern Millionaire Promise
Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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Death Deep Delay Punishment
By yielding you may obtain victory.
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One Liner Victory Yield
Beauty is a fragile gift.
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Beauty Fragile Gift One Liner
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Honest Man Sorry
Love is a kind of warfare.
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Kind Love One Liner Warfare
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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Calm Experience Man Sea
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Broke Chain Happiness Hurt Let Ho Man Mind Worry
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
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I can live neither with you, nor without you.
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Break Up I Miss You
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Deny Forbidden Strive

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