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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Moliere

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
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
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
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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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
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 world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
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
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
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity

He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

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