What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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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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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
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We believe slowly when belief brings pain.
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
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There are a thousand forms of evil; there will be a thousand remedies.
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship’s name.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
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Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.
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