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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

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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
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
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War

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