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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.

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You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure

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