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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.

Moliere

When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
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
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison

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