Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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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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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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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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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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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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

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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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