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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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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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Purpose Serve Understand
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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