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According as the man is, so must you humour him.

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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

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I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

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Without money honor is merely a disease.

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I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

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I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

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