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Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Moliere

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
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
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner

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