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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Moliere

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

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