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Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Moliere

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

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
MOLIERE

Intimacy Live
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

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