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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

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Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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

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