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Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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