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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.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE

Better Greatness Place World
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

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