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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
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 maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
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

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

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