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

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

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

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

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

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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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