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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

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You are a fool in four letters, my son.
MOLIERE

Fool Son Yourself
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
MOLIERE

Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
MOLIERE

Death Leaving Myself See Yourself
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
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.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
MOLIERE

Easy Humour Moral
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
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
Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
MOLIERE

Mindset Need Play Work
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
The smallest errors are always the best.
MOLIERE

Best Errors Small
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
MOLIERE

Devil Live People Poor World Writing
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Oneself
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
MOLIERE

Act Charity Goodness Himself Man True Wealth
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
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Himself Spiritual
It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.
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Beyond Compare Try World
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
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Mistake Myself Proper Sincere
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
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Laughter People Respect Strange
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People

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