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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

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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End Soon
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
MOLIERE

Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison

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