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Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

Moliere

Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
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
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness

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