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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Moliere

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.
MOLIERE

Drugs Equality Life Live Philosophy Worth
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

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