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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Moliere

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
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

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