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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that has so far been found. The roles are trite, I admit, but if the play had no value the whole universe wouldn't know it by heart
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Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
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Respect your wife. Heap earth around that flower, but never drop any in the chalice.
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Beggars are the vermin that attach themselves to the rich.
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I have come too late into a world too old.
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Reason! I have lost it; and, were it to be returned to me, I would fly from it!
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Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: "I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure"; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone.
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Born:
December 11, 1810
Died:
May 2, 1857
(aged 46)
Bio:
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle.
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Lorenzaccio
No Trifling with Love (1834)
The Moods of Marianne
Fantasio
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