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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
[ Complaining ]
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
[ Solitude ]
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
[ Respectability ]
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
[ Doctors ]
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
[ Pain ]
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
[ Health ]
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
[ Parents ]
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
[ Teachers ]
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
[ Reason ]
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
[ Humor ]
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
[ Forgiveness ]
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