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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

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth

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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