“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
