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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
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
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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