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Despair often breeds disease.

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A mind at peace does not engender wars.
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Mindset Peace War
The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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Cruelty Goodness Soul Wicked
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
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Nature Noble Speech Stain
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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Cry God Hands Mourn
Nobody likes the bringer of bad news.
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Bad Bring Messenger News
The truth is always the strongest argument.
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Argument One Liner Strong Truth
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
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Fools Happiness Himself Man Talk Thinking
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
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
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Afraid Person Rustle
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
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Cheating Failure Honor Preference Respect Win
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
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Beautiful Human Use
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
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Born Kindness One Liner
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
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Failure Fake Success
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.
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Man Profit Terrible Wisdom
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
It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
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Himself Learning Weakness Wrong
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
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Heart Spirit Thinking Wisdom Word
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
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Deception Profit Sweet
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
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Forget Happiness Misery Present
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
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Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.
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Act Age Himself Man
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
Brave hearts do not back down back off.
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Brave Heart Let Go
Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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Secret See Time
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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Learning Man Mindset Shame Thinking Wisdom
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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Coward Fortune
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering

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