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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.[][]
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.[][]
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.[][]
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.[][]
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. [][]
Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.[][]
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode. [][]
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.[][]
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.[][]
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.[][]
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.[][]
Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.[][]
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. [][]
Fortune and love favor the brave.[][]
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