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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
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
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
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
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

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