Consider, that no jewel upon earth is comparable to a woman of virtue and honor; and, that the honor of the sex consists in the fair characters they maintain.

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

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

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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

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