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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Moliere

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
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
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

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