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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
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.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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