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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

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Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

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