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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Great grief does not of itself put an end itself.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Whom they have injured, they also hate.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.