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The envious will die, but envy never.

Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
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

The envious will die, but envy never.

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