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“He brings hidden things out of the light of his own being into the light of ours.”
“A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.”
“Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.”
“But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing.”
“Benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.”
“A thief is a lion, but after he has been caught, he will be a slave.”
“The eyes of the slanderer always move around as shiftily as a spindle.”
“To speak arrogantly is like an abscess: a herb that makes the stomach sick.”
“The elder brother is indeed like a father; the elder sister is indeed like a mother.”