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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

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

Offend Public Secret Sin
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
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
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
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
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
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Project Road
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
MOLIERE

Esteem Hold Preference
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love

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