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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
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
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison

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