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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Moliere

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
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.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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Believe God Heaven

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