The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

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