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Nothing is sacred to a gamester.
The law often allows what honor forbids.
Valor is common but great souls are rare.
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
Death is but an instant, life a long torment.
How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.