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You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way

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