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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.

Moliere

The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
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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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love

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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