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Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Dwell Harm Life Misfortune Power Thorn
Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Deep Enemy Goodness One Liner Perfection
Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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Ending Money Thinking
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Guilty Innocence Justice Person Risk Save
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Lion Myself Obey Rat Species Strong
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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Forbidden Government Humour Kill Murder Punishment
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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Acceptance Alone Decide Game Life Player
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
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Born Nature Resurrection Surprise
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Deep Intelligence Judgement One Liner Stupidity
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Family Man Mother In Law Sucess Surprise
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
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Healing History Men Past Repeat
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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Adsured Person Uncertain
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Amuse Art Disease Medicine Nature Patient
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
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Book Bore Evil Reading Writing
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
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Himself Jealousy Love Man Suffering
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
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Broken Heart Deceive Hurt Love Lying Unhappy

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