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Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you’re always speaking well.
MOLIERE

Talk Understand Well Yourself
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
MOLIERE

Better Death Marriage
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
MOLIERE

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
MOLIERE

Esteem Meaning Preference
Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
MOLIERE

Age Madam Time
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
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.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
MOLIERE

Oneself Talk Word
I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
MOLIERE

Heart Love Myself World
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
All the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.
MOLIERE

Dance Failure Greatness Leadership Skill

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