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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Moliere

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
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
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman’s ailments.
MOLIERE

Goodness Husband Problem Woman Young
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season Thinking
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
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

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