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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

Moliere

They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See 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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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