"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."
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"No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life."
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"Obedience to authority saves many skins"
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"It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love."
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"More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them."
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"Ill-gotten gains work evil."
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"When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs."
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"Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness."
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"When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live."
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"Everything is ideal to its parent."
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"Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor."
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"There is no such thing as the old age of the wise."
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"Think not that your word and yours alone must be right."
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"Time is a kindly God."
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"Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot."
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"The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself"
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"Kids are anchors of mothers' life"
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"Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice."
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"To him who is afraid, everything rustles."
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"Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe."
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