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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

Moliere

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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