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Too much candor is easily duped.

The truth is lost when there is too much contention about it.

If there is no evil in death, there is too much good in it.

Stretch the cord too tightly, and it will be likely to break.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

It is vain to be the pupil of a sage if you have no brains yourself.

He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

Not to punish offences, is to encourage depravity.

Guilty men beg, the innocent are indignant.

The ready apologist of guilt may be himself suspected.

The resolute spirit is not cast down by a single misfortune.

To abstain from doing an injury when you have the power to do it, deserves the greatest praise.

Do not despise the lowest steps in the ascent to greatness.

Don't turn your back when you are just at the goal.

It is not every question that deserves an ans