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The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves

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