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Love has reasons that reason knows not.

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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The one who is good, is free even being a slave the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
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