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Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Moliere

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

Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
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
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.
MOLIERE

Body Cover Soul Wound
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
MOLIERE

Death Infidelity Malicious Man
You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE

Offend Public Secret Sin
To inspire love is a woman’s greatest ambition, believe me. It’s the one thing woman care about and there’s no woman so proud that she does not rejoice at heart in her conquests.
MOLIERE

Ambition Greatness Heart Herself Love Woman
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
MOLIERE

Age People Praise

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