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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

Moliere

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.
MOLIERE

Friendship Man Myself Truth
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
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
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
MOLIERE

Charm Expression Fact Lying
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
But it is not reason that governs love.
MOLIERE

Government Love Reason
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Dom Juan believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
MOLIERE

Believe God Heaven
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
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

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

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