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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

Moliere

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
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
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
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
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
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
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage

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