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Work makes companionship.
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People whip curds to see if they cannot make cream of them.
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It is much easier to put yourself in the position of a mind taken up with the most absolute error, than of one which mirrors to itself half-truths.
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Wisdom lies only in truth.
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When I err, every one can see it; but not when I lie.
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Is not the world full enough of riddles already, without our making riddles too out of the simplest phenomena?
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‘The finest hair throws a shadow.’ Erasmus.
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What I have tried to do in my life through false tendencies, I have at last learned to understand.
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Generosity wins favour for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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Before the storm breaks, the dust rises violently for the last time—the dust that is soon to be laid forever.
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Men do not come to know one another easily, even with the best will and the best purpose. And then ill-will comes in and distorts everything.
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We should know one another better if one man were not so anxious to put himself on an equality with another.