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I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
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But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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