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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

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.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
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

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
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Absence Minimalism
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small

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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