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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
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The law often allows what honor forbids.
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Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
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Valor is common but great souls are rare.
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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
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Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
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How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
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Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.