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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
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
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

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