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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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