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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
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

Age People Praise
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
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing

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