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Deference and intimacy live far apart.

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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
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
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage

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