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It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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

Creation Private Sin Wicket
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
MOLIERE

Children Pain Pleasure
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
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Action Difference People Promise
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
MOLIERE

Eat Enough Food
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
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Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
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Learning Nonsense

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