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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Moliere

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself

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