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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

Moliere

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
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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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue

Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

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