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

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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I am who I am and that's who I am

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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

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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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I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

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

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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