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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
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Action Heart Ourselves Secret
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
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

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