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

Moliere

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
MOLIERE

Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Death Jealous Willing
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
MOLIERE

Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
MOLIERE

Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Truth Worst
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
MOLIERE

End Soon
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
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 is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE

Pocket Praise Sort Yourself

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