Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Happiness   
Friendship   
Grief   
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Confidence   
Mind   
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A man of courage is also full of faith.
Subject:
Faith   
Courage   
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Subject:
Fear   
Hate   
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Evil   
Good   
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
Subject:
Honor   
Virtue   
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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Subject:
Nature   
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Subject:
Peace   
Work:
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Subject:
Wealth   
Admire   
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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Fear   
Duty   
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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Subject:
Nature   
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Subject:
Character   
Ignorance   
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Subject:
Honesty   
Work:
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Subject:
Learning   
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Moderation   
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Subject:
Friendship   
Words   
Character   
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Life   
Death   
Memory   
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Subject:
Friendship   
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The sinews of war are infinite money.
Subject:
Destruction   
War   
Money   
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Subject:
Friendship   
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