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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.

Moliere

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
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
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird 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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
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 will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time

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