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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Moliere

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
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking

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