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Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

Moliere

A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

Herself Revenge Woman
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.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE

Love Season 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
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning

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