A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
OuidaHypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
OuidaA pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
OuidaThe bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.
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