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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
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
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise

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