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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

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
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
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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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere

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