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One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
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.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
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
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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