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A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness...

How fast passes away the glory of this world.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

People who make no noise are dangerous.