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

Moliere

Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
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
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
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.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
MOLIERE

Chance Myself Show Writing
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
MOLIERE

Bad Goodness
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Man Necessary
There’s a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
MOLIERE

Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money

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