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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Moliere

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
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.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
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
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
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Herself Laughter Yourself
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow

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