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There is no use in reproving vulgarity, for it never changes.
223
We cannot escape a contradiction in ourselves; we must try to resolve it. If the contradiction comes from others, it does not affect us: it is their affair.
224
There are many things in the world that are at once good and excellent, but they do not come into contact.
225
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
226
When men have to do with women, they get spun off like a distaff.
227
It may well be that a man is at times horribly threshed by misfortunes, public and private: but the reckless flail of Fate, when it beats the rich sheaves, crushes only the straw; and the corn feels nothing of it and dances merrily on the floor, careless whether its way is to the mill or the furrow.