Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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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.
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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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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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In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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