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

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse

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