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One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Moliere

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
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
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
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
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
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

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