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A mind at peace does not engender wars.

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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Goodness Ignore Judgment Lost Man
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
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Body Freedom Mindset Myself Slave
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
Money: There’s nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Money Moral World
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
Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
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Alone Bad Day Man Reveal Time
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Happiness Misery Person Talk Ugly Wealth
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
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Finding See Time Yourself
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.
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Doctor Medicine Need Wisdom
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
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
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live

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