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The smallest errors are always the best.

Moliere

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time

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