A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
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Fool Son Yourself
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope

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