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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

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On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can.
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
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Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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