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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

Moliere

The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
MOLIERE

Accomplishment Projection Road
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
MOLIERE

Goodness Modeling People Side
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

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