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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Moliere

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World

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