You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

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He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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