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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
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.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
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
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
MOLIERE

Beard Discrimination Power Sex
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand

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