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

Moliere

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
MOLIERE

Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
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Criticism Love Proof True
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
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Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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Age Madam Time
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
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Prose Verse
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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Book Marvelous
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
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Chance Myself Show Writing
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time Yourself
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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Mindset Need Play Work
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
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Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
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Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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Himself Mortal
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine

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