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To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
In this world, you only get what you grab for.
it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.
They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.
Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.