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Reason is not what decides love.

Moliere

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
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
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
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
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
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, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse

Reason is not what decides love.

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