Molière - Tartuffe

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

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Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

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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.

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Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!

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Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

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I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

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God, it is true, does some delights condemn,
But 'tis not hard to come to terms with Him.

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There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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It is public scandal that constitutes offence, and to sin in secret is not to sin at all.

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To create a public scandal is what's wicked;
To sin in private is not a sin.

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Cover that bosom that I must not see:
Souls are wounded by such things.

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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

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People do not mind being wicked; but they object to being made ridiculous.

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I saw him, I say, saw him with my own eyes.

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

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Those whose conduct gives room for talk
Are always the first to attack their neighbors.

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Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

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