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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

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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.
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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