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

Moliere

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE

Learning People Quality
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself

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

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