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To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Moliere

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
MOLIERE

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

Cultivation Interest People
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.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
MOLIERE

Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
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
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
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
It is a long road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Concept Road

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