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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Deference and intimacy live far apart.
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Intimacy Live
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
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
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
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Death Infidelity Malicious Man
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Absence Partner Relationship
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul

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