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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves

They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

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