"He who sings frightens away his ills."
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"Love not what you are but only what you may become."
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"What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?"
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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."
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"The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls."
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"They who lose today may win tomorrow."
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"It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket."
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"It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight's sole responsibility is to succour them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds."
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"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."
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"Where there's music there can be no evil."
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"there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls"
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"The eyes those silent tongues of love."
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"Delay always breeds danger."
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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man."
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"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
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"Let every man mind his own business."
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"Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one."
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"Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding."
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"Take away the cause, and the effect ceases."
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"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."
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