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

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

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

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

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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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