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• Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

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• We reason with one another; he prescribes the remedies; I omit to take them and I recover.

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• Almost all men die from their medicines and not from their illnesses.

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• A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

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• It’s good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

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• Even kings must bow to grammar.

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• Good heavens! I’ve been speaking prose for forty years without knowing it!

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• Here they hang a men first, and try him afterwards.

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• When there is enough food for eight, there is enough for ten.

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• I prefer easygoing vice to tiresome virtue.

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• I have no use at all for the friend of mankind.

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• Birth counts for little when virtue is lacking.

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• Anyone who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

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• A scandal is that which gives offence to the world. To sin in private is not to sin at all.

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• True, heaven forbids us certain pleasures; But we always find a way to arrange things.

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• I shouldn’t be surprised if the greatest rule of all weren’t to give pleasure.

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• Our times have become vulgar.

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• Bolts and bars will not keep wives and daughters chaste.

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• Outside of Paris, there is no salvation for gentlemen.

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• We only die once; and it’s for such a long time!

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Moliere (81)

Birth:	15th January, 1622
Death:	17th February, 1673
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Actor, Playwriter

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