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

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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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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.

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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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

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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.

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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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