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What greater wound is there than a false friend?

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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
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep
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
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.
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Children Life Mom
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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Action Fancy Knowledge Test Trial Yourself
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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Crime Goodness Himself Man Mistake Pride
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
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Chance Day Fear Live Man Rule
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
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Decision Quick Safety
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
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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Healing One Liner Ourselves Sorrow Time
No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Disgust Himself Leaving Nature Oneself
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today.
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Cure Day Future Mindset

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

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