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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Moliere

They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Books and marriage go ill together.
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Book Marriage Sick

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