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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
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
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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine

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