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All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

Moliere

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
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Civilization Essence People Young
You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.
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Peace Salvation Yourself
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Projection Road
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong

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