What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Habits change into character.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
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He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
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