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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Moliere

To marry a fool is to be no fool.
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Fools Marriage
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
MOLIERE

Cheating Hold Infidelity
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
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
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work

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