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

Moliere

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
MOLIERE

Affair Charm Gold Misery
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
MOLIERE

Death People Remedy Sick
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
MOLIERE

Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself

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

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