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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

Moliere

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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
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Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
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
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
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
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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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
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.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
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Forever Friendship Myself
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

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It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.

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