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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.

Moliere

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
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
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
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself

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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