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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking

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