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Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Moliere

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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
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
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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

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