"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."
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"Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman."
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"The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love."
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"Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows."
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"There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man."
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"When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state."
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"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
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"Often a noble face hides filthy ways."
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"The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife."
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"Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging."
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"The lucky person passes for a genius."
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"The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself."
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"Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them."
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"For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended."
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"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."
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"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."
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"The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city."
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"Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours."
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"Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman."
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"I have found power in the mysteries of thought."
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