The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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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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Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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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.
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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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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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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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