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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

There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
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
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
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
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work

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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