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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

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He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

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Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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