Bernard-Joseph Saurin quotes
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“Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.”
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“The law often permits what honor prohibits.”
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“Death is but an instant, life a long torment.”
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“Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.”
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“Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.”
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“Valor is common but great souls are rare.”
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“How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.”
-- Bernard-Joseph SaurinSource : "Blanche et Guiscard". Play by Bernard-Joseph Saurin (Act V, Scene 5), translated, September 25, 1763.
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