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

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

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

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

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

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