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

Moliere

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.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
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.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
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.
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Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
To live without loving is not really to live.
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Live Love Wasted
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse

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