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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Moliere

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
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
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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree

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