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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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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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Subject:
Fear   
Hate   
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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.
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Peace   
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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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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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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Fear   
Duty   
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Subject:
Life   
Death   
Memory   
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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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The sinews of war are infinite money.
Subject:
Destruction   
War   
Money   
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Ability without honor is useless.
Subject:
Ability   
Wisdom   
Honor   
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Subject:
Honesty   
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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Subject:
Nature   
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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.
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Friendship   
Words   
Character   
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While there's life, there's hope.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Life   
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Moderation   
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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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