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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Moliere

Birth is nothing where virtue is not.
MOLIERE

Born One Liner Virtue
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
MOLIERE

Bad Honor Man Poet Writing
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
MOLIERE

Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Solitude Soul
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?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE

Knowledge Known
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
MOLIERE

Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
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
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

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