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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Moliere

Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
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
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
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
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men

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