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Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

Moliere

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
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
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
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
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
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
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
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.

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