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Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue

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