He is most blessed who loves the most, the freest who is most enslaved by love,

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One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

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What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.

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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

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Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

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