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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
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
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
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
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
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
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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