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I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Moliere

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
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.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE

Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Error Small
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

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