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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

For the mighty, even to give away is grace.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Honor modesty more than your life.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.