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You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

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