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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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