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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

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
MOLIERE

Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
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
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
MOLIERE

Born Desire Love Pleasure Variety
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
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

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