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The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

Moliere

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE

Home Lover Stand
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
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
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way

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