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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
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
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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