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

Moliere

We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
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Cure Husband Woman
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
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Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
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
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
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Children Time
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal

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