One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
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The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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