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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
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
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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