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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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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
(Slaughter) means blood and iron.
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Blood Death Iron
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
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Admire Art Consist Greatness Life Ourselves
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection 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
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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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