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Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

Moliere

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

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