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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

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Strange World
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
MOLIERE

Himself Spiritual
I recover my property wherever I find it.
MOLIERE

Finding Myself Property Recover
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
Too great haste leads us to error.
MOLIERE

Error Greatness Haste

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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