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Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Ah, there are no longer any children!
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.
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Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
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We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
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Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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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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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.