Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.