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From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

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Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combinati...more

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They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a w...more