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There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

Moliere

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
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
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children 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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
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
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin

There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.

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