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

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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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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

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

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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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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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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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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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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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