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Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

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I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

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It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

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Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

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Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

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When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

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The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

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If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

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She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

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To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

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He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

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Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame

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Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

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Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.

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It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.