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 There is no mortal whom sorrow cannot reach.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

When you have learned to despise death, you will have overcome every terror.

Every thing which has a birth, must pay tribute to death.

A woman's tear is spite's seasoning.

There are many displeased when a woman weds many.

A woman's solitary thoughts are her worst ones.

You will find a great many things before you find a good man.

Power gains power by a multitude of pardons.

He threatens many, who does injustice to one.

Seek to please many, and you seek a failure.

The death of a good man is a public calamity.

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Gifts, and not tears, soften the heart of a courtesan.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.