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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Moliere

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
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
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul

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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