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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
To live without loving is not really to live.
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Long is the road from conception to completion.
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
It is a long road from conception to completion.
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
At least it's better to be married than to be dead.
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.