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.
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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. - Molière, The Misanthrope
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
I will maintain it before the whole world.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.