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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.

Moliere

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
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

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