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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage

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