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To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
 A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would 
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more 
 A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would 
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is 
professed with greatest strictness). 
 New customs,
 Though they be never so ridiculous,
  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.  
 New customs,
 Though they be never so ridiculous,
  (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed. 
 Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would 
perish.  
 Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would 
perish. 
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
None is so wise, but the foole overtakes him.
 Leave her to Heaven,
 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
  To prick and sting read more 
 Leave her to Heaven,
 And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
  To prick and sting her. 
 It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own 
impetuosity.  
 It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own 
impetuosity. 
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.