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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

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Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
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
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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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
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
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.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand

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