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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds.
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Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other.
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Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart.
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Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
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A man who lives in indifference is one who has never seen the woman he could love.
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There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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As long as men are liable to die and desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
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Born:
August 16, 1645
Died:
May 11, 1696
(aged 50)
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