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If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.

Moliere

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
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
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
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason

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