"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion" — Antisthenes

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness

To describe happiness is to diminish it

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