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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.

Moliere

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
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
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
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
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
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.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex

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