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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

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
MOLIERE

Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE

Book Marriage Sick
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
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
MOLIERE

Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

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

Absence Partner Relationship
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand

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