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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.

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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
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
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself

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