Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
MOLIERE
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Compromise
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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A woman always has her revenge ready.
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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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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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