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Deference and intimacy live far apart.

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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
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
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
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
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
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
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself

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