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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
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Adopt Friendship Ourselves
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
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
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Children Himself Imitation Nurse
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
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
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

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