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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

Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
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
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Without dance, a man can do nothing.
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Dance Man One Liner
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin

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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