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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise

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