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Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Moliere

They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
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
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE

Control Grammar King
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
MOLIERE

Honor Share
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.
MOLIERE

Learning Nonsense
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
MOLIERE

Cook Food Himself World
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
MOLIERE

Gratitude Heaven True Way
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.
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Devil Live People Poor World Writing
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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Eat Enough Food
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.
MOLIERE

Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way

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