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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

Moliere

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason

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