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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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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

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

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

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

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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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