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The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

Moliere

Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
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
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
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
How easy love makes fools of us.
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Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

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