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Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Moliere

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
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
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Draw Enough Goodness
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

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