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The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

Moliere

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
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
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow

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