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Reason is not what decides love.

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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious

Reason is not what decides love.

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