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Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.

Moliere

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
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Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
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
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage

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