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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

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
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!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
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Human Myself
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
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.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
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.
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Enemy Heart Imposter Live
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
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Talk Understand Well Yourself
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous

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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