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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Moliere

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
MOLIERE

Peace Salvation Yourself
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart
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
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
MOLIERE

Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
MOLIERE

Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
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
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE

Goodness Oneself Thinking
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

Book Marvelous
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
MOLIERE

Substance Time
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse

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