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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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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Greatness Grief Ourselves
Unwanted favours gain no gratitude.
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Favor Gratitude
Despair often breeds disease.
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Born Despair Sick
What greater wound is there than a false friend?
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Fake Friendship Greatness Wound
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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Best Light Live Thinking
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
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
No honest man will argue on every side.
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Argument Honesty Man Side
And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool’s eye.
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Act Eyes Fools Thinking
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
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Circumstance Important Pregnant
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
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
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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Jewellery Silence Woman
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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Cure Evil Man Wrong

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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