"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."
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"Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear."
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"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."
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"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes."
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"What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate."
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"The bold are helpless without cleverness."
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"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."
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"What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps."
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"It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly."
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"Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman."
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"A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue."
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"Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow."
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"In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise."
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"A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care."
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"This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free."
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"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."
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"It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved."
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"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."
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"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
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"Slow but sure moves the might of the gods."
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