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Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue

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