Abstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Many small make a great.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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All good things must come to an end.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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