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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

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
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
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
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

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