From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Anand Thakur
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
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One returns to the place one came from.
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I bend, but I do not break.
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To hell with pleasure that’s haunted by fear.
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Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.
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It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Lies and literature have always been friends.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
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