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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Moliere

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
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
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
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
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time

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