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Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.
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Conception False Moral People
Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb
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Advice Beg Dumb See Yourself
Heaven is equally distant everywhere.
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Distance Equality Heaven
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
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Alien Home Leaving Life Yourself
The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.
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Favor Hardship
Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.
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Creature Food Hope
He has gone over to the majority.
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Himself Majority
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
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Beautiful Rare Wisdom
Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.
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Beautiful Combination Wisdom
Women are one and all a set of vultures.
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Oneself Vulture Women
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed.
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Esteem Himself Worth Yourself
While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.
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Face Fortune Friendship
A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.
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Doctor Spirit
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.
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Believe Complete Fools Life Man Ordinary School Young
The mind longs for what it has missed.
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Mindset Missing
What power has law where only money rules?
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Law Money Power Rule

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