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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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