"Silence is an ornament for women."

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"A day lays low and lifts up again all human things."

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

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"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

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"For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds."

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"Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here."

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