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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Alexander Pushkin

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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Better Choice Dreams
A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
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Active Care Fight Kind Man Mindset
Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Fuse Heart Store Strain
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Brilliant Capacity Sanity
Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up – you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
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Beautiful Moments Myself Rare Vision
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
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Attempt Burn Flame Reason
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
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Compulsion Impulse Obsession
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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Action Invention Justify Moral Occasion Ourselves Surprise
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Charm Kind Love Woman
Play interests me very much,” said Hermann: “but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
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Interest Myself Play Position Sacrifice Win
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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Death Heart Live Memories Oneself
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.
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Avoid Herself Love Please Responsibility Woman
Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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Habit Happiness Heaven Place
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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Change Happiness Marriage Myself
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
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Aspiration Dreams Fine Fresh Leaving Sad Success
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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Burn Bury Desire Dreams Empty Heart Live

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

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