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love-you genuine-love consideration
There is but one genuine love potion - consideration....
heart giving praying
Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
people know-thyself wells
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
wealth rich persons
No just person ever became quickly rich.
silence silent silence-is
Nothing is more useful than silence.
dye hair ought woman women yellow
A chaste woman ought not to dye her hair yellow
itself joke joking
A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called
craft fine handled handsome skill
A handsome person, with perverted will, is a fine craft that's handled without skill
sweet oneself
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
men good-man goodness
The good man makes others good.
school experience curriculum
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
fall gathers man wood
On the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood
character men conversation
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
war iron clothes
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.