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

Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
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Friendship Man Myself Truth
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
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
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
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Alive Food Goodness Myself
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
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.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
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Complete Project Road
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin

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

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