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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

Moliere

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
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
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
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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