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

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The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

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

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

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He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

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

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

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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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