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The envious will die, but envy never.

Moliere

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
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 duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
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.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife

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