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What is brighter than the sun? Yet it disappears. Man is no more than flesh and blood, yet he thinks of doing evil. While the sun surveys the stars in the lofty sky, human beings remain dust and ashes.

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Bread is life to the poor; he who takes it from them is a murderer.

Better to stumble on the ground than to make a slip with the tongue; this is how easily the wicked fall.

Few perhaps are the days of the just man’s life but an honored name endures forever.

When you experience abundance, remember the days of famine; when you enjoy riches, think of poverty and misery. Time slips by between morning and evening, all things pass quickly before the Lord.

Wine and women corrupt the best of men; whoever frequents prostitutes loses all sense of shame.

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