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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will
reap the advantage of it.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will
reap the advantage of it.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would
perish.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
All soils are not fertile.
All soils are not fertile.
[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.
[A woman] fiercer than a cubless tigress.
Nothing lasts but the Church.
Nothing lasts but the Church.
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
