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

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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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In this world, you only get what you grab for.

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

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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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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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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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