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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.

Moliere

It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife

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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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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