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The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Moliere

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
MOLIERE

Right True Zeal
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
MOLIERE

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

Creation Private Sin Wicket
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
There is no protection against slander.
MOLIERE

Protection
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE

Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
MOLIERE

Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE

Mean People Ridiculous
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

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