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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
Love is no assignment for cowards.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Envy aims very high.
Venus favors the bold.
Do not believe hastily.
Pursuits become habits.
Beauty is a frail good.
The gods favor the bold.
Giving calls for genius.
Every lover is a soldier.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Love is a credulous thing.
Habit had made the custom.
Skill makes love unending.
Tempus fugit (time flies).
Love is a kind of warfare.
Art lies in concealing art.
There is something in omens.
Bear patiently with a rival.
Few love what they may have.
To give requires good sense.
Courage conquers all things.
Love is a believing creature.
God himself favors the brave.
Habits change into character.
Art lies by its own artifice.
Love is full of anxious fears.
The gods have their own rules.
The result justifies the deed.
A short absence is the safest.
The spirits run riot in youth.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
First appearance deceives many.
Love is an affair of credulity.
Anyone can be rich in promises.
An injury may prove a blessing.
Idleness ruins the constitution
A bitter drug oft brings relief.
An evil life is a kind of death.
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
Let the poor man mind his tongue
Time, the devourer of all things.
God himself helps those who dare.
A pious fraud. [Lat., Pia fraus.]
Anger assists hands however weak.
You will be safest in the middle.
Simplicity, very rare in our age.
