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Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Moliere

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

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