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

Moliere

Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
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.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
MOLIERE

Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
MOLIERE

Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
MOLIERE

Alive Food Goodness Myself
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE

Human Myself
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
MOLIERE

Reason Sacred Thinking
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE

Direct Error Haste Reason
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
MOLIERE

Man Precise Smart

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

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