If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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