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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
MOLIERE

Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
MOLIERE

Fashion Passion People See Strange
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
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
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
MOLIERE

Offend Silence Sin World
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
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Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
MOLIERE

Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
MOLIERE

Human Live Love Powerful

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it’s the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

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