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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
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
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
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

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