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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Devil Faith Goodness Hands Oneself Right Thing
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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