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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

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Art lies by its own artifice.

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

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Love is full of anxious fears.

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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

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Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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Tears at times have the weight of speech.

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