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I have the knack of easing scruples.

Moliere

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
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.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
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
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
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
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

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