“She is a prude in her own defence … under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the decay of her worn-out charms.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“A nobleman who is wicked is by nature a monster.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“The poor man!”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“Laurent, lock up my hair shirt and lacerating whip.”
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“Public scandal is what makes the offense; sinning in private is not sinning at all.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“They were more chaste in their ears than in the rest of their bodies.”
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“What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Moderation
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“Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Moderation
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“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“He teaches me to set my heart on nothing. He detaches my mind from friends and relations; and I could watch on as brother, children, mother, and wife all died, and not care in the least.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courtesy
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“Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“I have the knack of easing scruples.”
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Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sex
