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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

Moliere

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
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
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE

Fruit Love Marriage
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
MOLIERE

Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

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