I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.

It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman

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