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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
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
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
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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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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