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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

Moliere

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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
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
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
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
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!

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