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Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
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
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine

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