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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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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
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
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
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

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