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

Moliere

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
MOLIERE

Assurance Education Illiterate 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
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
MOLIERE

Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

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

Action Difference People Promise
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
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.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself

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