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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
The words of truth are simple.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.
In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Time brings all things to pass.