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The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

Moliere

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
MOLIERE

Purpose Serve Understand
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
MOLIERE

Greatness Love Master Teaching
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
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
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Born Virtue
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
There is no protection against slander.
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Protection
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
A woman always has her revenge ready.
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Herself Revenge Woman

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

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