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All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

Moliere

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
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
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
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
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing

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