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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Moliere

I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
MOLIERE

Beyond Compare Try World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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