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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
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
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
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 gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
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

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

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