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

Moliere

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
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
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
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason

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