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An hour's misery makes one forget past delights, and at the close of one's life one's deeds are revealed.
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Call no one happy before his death; by how he ends, a person becomes known.
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Do not invite everyone into your home, for many are the tricks of the crafty.
30
Like a decoy partridge in a cage, so is the mind of the proud, and like spies they observe your weakness;
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for they lie in wait, turning good into evil, and to worthy actions they attach blame.
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