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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

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself

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