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"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool."
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"If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!"

"For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint."

"For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter."

"Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously."

"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved."

"There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them."

"The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority."
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