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"Love is an affair of credulity."
"What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her."
"The mightiest rivers lose their force when split up into several streams."
"The more they drink the more they thirst."
"O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?"
"That which never has been, never is, and never will be."
"Trivial losses often prove great gains."
"I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues."
"Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart."
"Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim."
"Pleasant words are the food of love."
"Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished."
"It is a kingly act to help the fallen."
"There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away."
"If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking."
"It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]"
"All things can corrupt perverse minds."
"Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love."
"When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance."