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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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Agreement Cheating Justice Treat
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
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Day Kind Type Yourself
Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
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Darkness Horror Myself
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Depend Happiness Way Wisdom
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Lazy Mom
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
The truth is what I cherish and that’s my strength.
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Cherish Myself Strength Truth
What you can’t enforce, do not command.
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Command Enforcement Yourself
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
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God Himself Life Live
It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Better Grace Live
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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Advice Bad Hate
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

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