"The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order."
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"The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order."
"Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?"
"If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe."
"Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave."
"Do not consider painful what is good for you."
"It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior."
"When good men die their goodness does not perish."
"Time will unveil all things to posterity."
"All men know their children mean more than life."
"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise"
"We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts."
"I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities."
"In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?"
"Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
"This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
"Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days."
"Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away."
"Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them."
"All is change; all yields its place and goes."
"Bear calamities with meekness."