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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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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
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
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World

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