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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

Moliere

Virtue is the first title of nobility.
MOLIERE

Nobility Virtue
Music and dance are all you need.
MOLIERE

Dance Music Need
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
MOLIERE

Desire Human Known Oneself Weakness
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
MOLIERE

Blush Innocence One Liner
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

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

Friendship Love Purity
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
MOLIERE

Haste Man Marriage Regret
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
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE

Fruit Growth Slow Tree
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE

Capacity Limitation Occasion
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
Reason is not what decides love.
MOLIERE

Decision Love Reason
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE

Double Grief Increase Yourself
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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