Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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Goal   
Plan   
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If you would judge, understand.
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Judgment   
Understand   
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Life is warfare.
Subject:
Life   
War   
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Subject:
Violence   
Youth   
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Power   
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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Subject:
Speech   
Mind   
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Subject:
Life   
Good   
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Hereafter   
Sin   
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Subject:
Crime   
Encouragement   
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Miscellaneous   
Source: Epistles
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Subject:
Food   
Freedom   
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Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
Subject:
Arrogance   
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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
Subject:
Advice   
Health   
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Subject:
Honor   
Good   
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Subject:
Success   
Greed   
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Subject:
Conversation   
Secrets   
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Wealth   
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Harmful   
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Subject:
Democracy   
Dictatorship   
Politics   
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