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Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Moliere

We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Errors Small
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
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
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover

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