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Moliere

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
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Fool Ignorance Learning
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
MOLIERE

God Greatness Man Terrible Wicket
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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Preference Vice Virtue
We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE

Death Time
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MOLIERE

Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
MOLIERE

Value Worth Yourself
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
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.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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Behavior Friendship Ridiculous
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
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
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?
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Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
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Brilliance Touch True
I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Maintain Myself World
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
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Death Ourselves
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
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Honest Live Man Passion Worth
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
MOLIERE

Death Man Medicine Sick

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