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Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

There were times when his optimism appeared forced and formal though I believe it was not really so: there were times when I have almost hated him for his infernal cheerfulness.

The secret of calm cheerfulness is kindliness; no person can be consistently cheerful and calm who does not consistently think kind thoughts.

the need of society drives the human porcupines together--only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

Oh, if our friends would but put off anatomising one till after one was safely dead, and call to mind that, previously, we have nerves to be agonised and morbid brains to be driven mad!

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.

What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?