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Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
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
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
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
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
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

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