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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Moliere

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
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
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
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
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language

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