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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Moliere

Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
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

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