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There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Moliere

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
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
MOLIERE

Fools Marriage
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
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
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
MOLIERE

Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Hook Intelligence
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill

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