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 this world, you only get what you grab for.

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Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

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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.

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Senseless creatures, you don't see how much evil is concealed under a little good appearance.

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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

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La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

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Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

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Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.

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