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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

Moliere

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
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Born One Liner Virtue
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching

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