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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
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
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

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