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Medicine for the dead is too late.

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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
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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Goal Perspective Possible
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
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
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
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
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
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
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Experience Value
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Admission Creation Excellence Impression Pretend
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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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness

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