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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

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
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Instruction Smile Youth
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself

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