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One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

Moliere

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
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Double Grief Increase Yourself
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
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.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man One Liner
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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