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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Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

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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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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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

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it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

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

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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

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

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