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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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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Action Talk Terrible Wrong
I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
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Friendship Love Myself Word
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
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God Injury Punishment Return
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
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
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Kindness One Liner
The happiest life is to be without thought.
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Happiest Joy 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
I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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Desire Myself Reality Suffering
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
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Freedom Life Live Pain Remember Suffering
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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Drink Himself Man Thirst Wisdom
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
A fearful man is always hearing things.
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Fear Hear Man
But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.
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Darkness Destiny Escape Power Wealth
Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.
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Easy Medicine Sleep

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