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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

Moliere

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
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
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue

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