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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.

Moliere

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
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
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
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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

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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