There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

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I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

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