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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. | [▲] | [▼] |