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Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

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The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
MOLIERE

Marriage Rule Wife
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
MOLIERE

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

Civilization Essence People Young
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
MOLIERE

Criticism Love Proof True
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
MOLIERE

Dinner Food Genuine
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
MOLIERE

Love Maturity Money Process Writing
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
Everything that’s prose isn’t verse and everything that isn’t verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
MOLIERE

Prose Scholar Verse Yourself
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
MOLIERE

Angry Right Wrong
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage

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