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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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It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
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Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
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A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
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Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
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I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.
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Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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Alas!-but why Alas? It is the lot of mortality we experience.
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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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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There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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