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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never read more
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.
The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
But who alas! can love and then be wise?
But who alas! can love and then be wise?
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
