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

Moliere

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick

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

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