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All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Moliere

New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
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
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself

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