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Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

Moliere

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
MOLIERE

Absence Partner Relationship
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE

Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
A woman always has her revenge ready.
MOLIERE

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

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE

Amuse Comedy Correct Men
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket

Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.

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