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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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The words of truth are simple.
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For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.
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In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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But time growing old teaches all things.
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Time brings all things to pass.
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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
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Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
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When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
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To be free from evil thoughts is God’s best gift.
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It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.