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

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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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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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The fault lies not with the mob, who demands nonsense, but with those who do not know how to produce anything else.

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The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

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

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Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.

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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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He most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

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

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