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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
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
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

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