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He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

Moliere

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
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Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
Ah, there are no longer any children!
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Children Growth One Liner
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
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Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
MOLIERE

Job Laughter People
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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.
MOLIERE

Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
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Government Grammar King

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