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There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Moliere

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
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.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
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
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound

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