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

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

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

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

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The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.

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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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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.

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What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.

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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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