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We die only once, and for such a long time.

Moliere

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
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 think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth

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