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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

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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk

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