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There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.

Moliere

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
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
MOLIERE

Friendship Love Purity
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money

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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