"The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine."
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"We are easily duped by those we love."
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"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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"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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"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. - Molière, The Misanthrope"
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"And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says."
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"If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen."
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"There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant."
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"There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing."
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"The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair."
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"unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs."
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"No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed."
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"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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"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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"They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism."
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"Perfect reason avoids all extremes."
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"Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait."
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"Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error."
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"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
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"One is easily fooled by that which one loves."
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