"When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate."

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“Blessed, unquestionably, is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.”

“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”

“I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.”

“God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards.”

“To me it seems much better to love a woman as a woman, than to make her one's idol, as many do. For my part, I am convinced that it is better to use than to abuse.”

“Though jealousy be produced by love as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love, as ashes smother the flame.”

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