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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

Moliere

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
The envious will die, but envy never.
MOLIERE

Deep Jealous People
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
MOLIERE

Ancestor People Present
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.
MOLIERE

Enemy Heart Imposter Live
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
MOLIERE

Brilliance Touch True
I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE

Maintain Myself World
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
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
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
MOLIERE

Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
MOLIERE

Action Difference People Promise
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
MOLIERE

Culture Hope

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