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

Moliere

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose.
MOLIERE

Action Heart Ourselves Secret
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
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?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue

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

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