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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Health
Horace

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Experience
Italian Proverb

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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Fear
Samuel Johnson

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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Faults
Jean De La Fontaine

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Love Ended
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
Astrology
D. H. Lawrence

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Shame
John Lyly

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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Victory
Horace Mann

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No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
Integrity
George Mcgovern

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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
Candor
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
Lies and Lying
Phaedrus

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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Reputation
Pliny The Elder

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Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Character
Alexander Pope

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Speak the truth and shame the devil.
Devil
Proverb

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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Truth
Francois Rabelais

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So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Gossip
Will Rogers

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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
Confession
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Guilt
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Shame is worse than death.
Shame
Russian Proverb

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Quotations
Seneca

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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Shame
Seneca

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
Truth
William Shakespeare

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Duty
George Bernard Shaw

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