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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.

Moliere

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
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Affair Charm Gold Misery
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.

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