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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.

Moliere

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
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
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.

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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.

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