Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
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Life   
Health   
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Subject:
Death   
Hereafter   
Philosophical   
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For greed all nature is too little.
Subject:
Nature   
Greed   
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Subject:
Friendship   
Personality   
Travel   
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Subject:
Life   
Grief   
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Subject:
Conflict   
Argument & Debate   
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
Subject:
Deception   
Hypocrisy   
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Subject:
Charity   
Parable   
Compassion   
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Subject:
Reality   
Fear   
Harmful   
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Subject:
Friendship   
Judgment   
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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Wisdom   
Mankind   
Chance   
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Subject:
Wealth   
Poverty   
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Subject:
Silence   
Speech   
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Subject:
Honesty   
Conscience   
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Subject:
Anger   
Harmful   
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
Subject:
Happiness   
Life   
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
Subject:
God   
Religious   
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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Mankind   
Kindness   
Human Nature   
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Subject:
Belief   
Judgment   
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Subject:
Money   
Poverty   
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