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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

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Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
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Conquer Gold Love War
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
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
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue

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