Original text (Latin)
If you would give every man as he deserves, then love the good and pity those who are evil.
I see how happiness and misery lie inseparably in the deserts of good and bad men.
Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?
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Life could not be lived wet, whether it be in rain or tears.
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Every joy that some experience is paid for by the sorrow of others.
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