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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Moliere

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
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
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
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
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
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Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
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
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

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