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attached men-and-women scholars-and-scholarship shame suffer woman
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
being-yourself work love-yourself
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
lovers break scoundrels
Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.
fever six eternity
Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.
gymnastics mind body
The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.
exhausted abstract remains
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
wide
I am not deep, but I am very wide.
never-quit gowns priests
Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.