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Moliere

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
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
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage

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