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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

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
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
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Charity Known Money Yourself
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
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
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Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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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Bad Goodness
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
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Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

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