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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

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
I have the knack of easing scruples.
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Easy Myself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
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
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
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Body Cover Soul Wound
Music and dance are all you need.
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Dance Music Need
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
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
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.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand

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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