"Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial."
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"Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love."
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"The result proves the wisdom of the act."
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"Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes."
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"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."
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"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless."
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"I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love."
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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."
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"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."
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"We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us."
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"Every lover is a soldier."
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"As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]"
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"Beauty is a fragile gift."
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"As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity."
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."
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"Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name."
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"I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong."
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"You will go most safely in the middle."
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"The laws allow arms to be taken against an armed foe."
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"A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light"
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