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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

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
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
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
MOLIERE

Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow

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