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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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Change Dangerous Fortune
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
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Ambition Mistake Mom Virtue
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
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Alone Education Father Myself Parents Possible Regard Restrict
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
Fear of the future is worse than one’s present fortune.
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Fear Fortune Future Present
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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Accompany Average Impression Support
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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