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We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

Moliere

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
MOLIERE

Judgment Ourselves
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
MOLIERE

Direction Himself Right
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
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Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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!
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Complaint Death Decent Doctor Kill Remark
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
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Mean People Ridiculous
Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.
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Human Live Love Powerful
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.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

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