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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. ↗

— Moliere

#close friends #few #first #friends #like

Love is often the fruit of marriage. ↗

— Moliere

#fruit #love #love is #often

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. ↗

— Moliere

#i #pleasant #prefer #vice #virtue

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ↗

— Moliere

#flatter #friends #itself #less #love

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. ↗

— Moliere

#house #lover #pet #stand #tries

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. ↗

— Moliere

#everybody #follows #his #lessons #looks

People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous. ↗

— Moliere

#being mean #mean #mind #never #people

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. ↗

— Moliere

#everyone #founded #high #hold #must

No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living. ↗

— Moliere

#equal #life #lives #living #matter

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. ↗

— Moliere

#ever #everything #having #know #learned