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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

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