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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Moliere

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret

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