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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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself

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