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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.

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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
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
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
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
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
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

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