A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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What passes out of ones mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
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