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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

To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

Creation Private Sin Wicket
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
MOLIERE

Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
MOLIERE

Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
MOLIERE

Himself Mortal
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
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

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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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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