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No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

Moliere

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word

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