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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Moliere

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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Blush Innocence One Liner
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying

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