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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.

Moliere

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

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

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

Civilization Essence People Young
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
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
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound

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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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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