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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

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE

Follow Lesson Peace Taste
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
MOLIERE

Laughter People Respect Strange
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
MOLIERE

Fine Myself Understand Word
Ah, there are no children nowadays.
MOLIERE

Children Time
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
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
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
MOLIERE

Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
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Goodness Modeling People Side
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
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 less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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Deserve Fortune Goodness Hope
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
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Affair Strange World
She is laughing up her sleeve at you.
MOLIERE

Herself Laughter Yourself
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE

Action Responsibility Silence
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
MOLIERE

Attack Neighbor Room

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