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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Moliere

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
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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Conquer Gold Love War
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing

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