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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Moliere

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

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