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What you can’t enforce, do not command.

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Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
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Lying Ruin Sorry True
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
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Kindness Price Return Yourself
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
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Best Born Past Prize
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Knowledge must come through action.
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Action Knowledge
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
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Delay Hate One Liner Truth
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
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Blind Man See
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Best Captain Opportunity
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.
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Children Fortune Goodness Myself Rise Season Shame
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time

What you can’t enforce, do not command.

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