"We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us."
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"Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many."
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"A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure."
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"If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal."
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"Excessive love in loathing ever ends."
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"Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs."
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"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."
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"The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report."
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"Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish."
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"It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art."
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"As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves."
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"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."
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"Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled; it goes only once."
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"If you want to be loved, be loveable."
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"Add little to little and there will be a big pile."
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"Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him."
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"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."
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"Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes."
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"The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting."
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"The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts."
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