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The mind longs for what it has missed.
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2.
Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.
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3.
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
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4.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
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5.
Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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6.
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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7.
The world wants to be deceived.
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8.
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
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9.
A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.
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10.
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
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11.
While fortune lasts you will see your friend's face.
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12.
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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13.
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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14.
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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15.
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
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16.
What power has law where only money rules?
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Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
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18.
One good turn deserves another.
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19.
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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20.
He has gone over to the majority.
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21.
The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
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22.
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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23.
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.
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24.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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25.
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters 'Beware of the dog.'
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A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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