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Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.

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Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling.

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The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance.

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Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

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It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

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Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.

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Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

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It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.

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Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen.

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Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.

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When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

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The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.

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She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

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To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

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He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven