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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
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
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
MOLIERE

Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
MOLIERE

Death Knowledge Life Shadow
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
MOLIERE

Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
MOLIERE

Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE

Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE

Easy Myself
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
MOLIERE

Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
MOLIERE

Honest Live Man Passion Worth
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Live Oneself
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
MOLIERE

Civilization Essence People Young
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

Improvement Mistake Try World
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

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