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All cruelty springs from weakness.[][]
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.[][]
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.[][]
Time discovers truth.[][]
Time heals what reason cannot.[][]
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.[][]
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.[][]
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.[][]
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.[][]
He who has great power should use it lightly.[][]
If you wished to be loved, love.[][]
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.[][]
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.[][]
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.[][]
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.[][]
A great mind becomes a great fortune.[][]
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.[][]
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.[][]
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.[][]
That grief is light which can take counsel.[][]
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.[][]
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.[][]
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.[][]
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.[][]
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.[][]
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.[][]
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.[][]
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck du[][]
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.[][]
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.[][]
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