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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You will go most safely by the middle way.
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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
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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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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
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All things change; nothing perishes.
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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
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Time the devourer of all things.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.
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