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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

Moliere

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
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
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
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 prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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