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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

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

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

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he’d take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
MOLIERE

Charity Known Money Yourself
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
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
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight

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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