Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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