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

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

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

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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

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

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