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The envious will die, but envy never.

Moliere

The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
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
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted

The envious will die, but envy never.

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