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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
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
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue

Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

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